Upstream information

CVE-2006-5467 at MITRE

Description

The cgi.rb CGI library for Ruby 1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an HTTP request with a multipart MIME body that contains an invalid boundary specifier, as demonstrated using a specifier that begins with a "-" instead of "--" and contains an inconsistent ID.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 214916 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 225983 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • ruby-devel >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-doc-html >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-doc-ri >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-examples >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-test-suite >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-tk >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA ruby-devel-1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
  • ruby >= 1.8.7.p72-5.24.2
  • ruby-doc-html >= 1.8.7.p72-5.24.2
  • ruby-tk >= 1.8.7.p72-5.24.2
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA ruby-1.8.7.p72-5.24.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • ruby >= 1.8.7.p357-0.7.1
  • ruby-doc-html >= 1.8.7.p357-0.7.1
  • ruby-tk >= 1.8.7.p357-0.7.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA ruby-1.8.7.p357-0.7.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • ruby >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.9.1
  • ruby-doc-html >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.9.1
  • ruby-tk >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.9.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA ruby-1.8.7.p357-0.9.9.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • ruby >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-devel >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-doc-html >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-doc-ri >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-examples >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-test-suite >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-tk >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA ruby-1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA ruby-devel-1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:15:08 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:18:12 2023