Resource Management Errors Affecting ruby package, versions [,1.8.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.59% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RUBY-2370213
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Dec 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Dec 2006

CVE-2006-6303  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ruby to version 1.8.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The read_multipart function in cgi.rb in Ruby before 1.8.5-p2 does not properly detect boundaries in MIME multipart content, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted HTTP requests, a different issue than CVE-2006-5467.

CVSS Scores

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