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ruby: denial of service

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5467
Created:October 30, 2006 Updated:December 13, 2006
Description: The CGI library in Ruby 1.8 allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an HTTP request with a multipart MIME body that contained an invalid boundary specifier, which would result in an infinite loop and CPU consumption.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1235-1 2006-12-13
Debian DSA-1234-1 2006-12-13
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1441 2006-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1440 2006-12-11
Gentoo 200611-12 2006-11-20
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0729-01 2006-11-08
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.030 2006-11-06
Ubuntu USN-371-1 2006-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1110 2006-10-30
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:192 2006-10-27
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