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| author | Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-11-04 21:09:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-11-04 21:09:18 +0000 |
| commit | d3c05bae82555fd5a0678998c38841509fa71bc8 (patch) | |
| tree | 37099a84bd15ee674db0c5ccf5a5b5478ce91f2b /security | |
| parent | 07859c1f5baf46105387ab491086eaa500a8880c (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | security/vuxml/vuln.xml | 35 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/vuxml/vuln.xml b/security/vuxml/vuln.xml index f8f929b3ebe0..02c7c13f037f 100644 --- a/security/vuxml/vuln.xml +++ b/security/vuxml/vuln.xml @@ -34,6 +34,41 @@ Note: Please add new entries to the beginning of this file. --> <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1"> + <vuln vid="ab8dbe98-6be4-11db-ae91-0012f06707f0"> + <topic>ruby -- cgi.rb library Denial of Service</topic> + <affects> + <package> + <name>ruby</name> + <name>ruby_static</name> + <range><ge>1.8.*</ge><lt>1.8.5_4,1</lt></range> + </package> + </affects> + <description> + <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <p>Official ruby site reports:</p> + <blockquote cite="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/11/03/CVE-2006-5467/"> + <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in the CGI library (cgi.rb) + that ships with Ruby which could be used by a malicious user to + create a denial of service attack (DoS). The problem is triggered + by sending the library an HTTP request that uses multipart MIME + encoding and as an invalid boundary specifier that begins with + "-" instead of "--". Once triggered it will + exhaust all available memory resources effectively creating a DoS + condition.</p> + </blockquote> + </body> + </description> + <references> + <cvename>CVE-2006-5467</cvename> + <bid>20777</bid> + <url>http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2006-October/001946.html</url> + </references> + <dates> + <discovery>2006-10-25</discovery> + <entry>2006-11-04</entry> + </dates> + </vuln> + <vuln vid="b318dc8c-6756-11db-83c3-000c6ec775d9"> <topic>screen -- combined UTF-8 characters vulnerability</topic> <affects> |