[OpenPKG-SA-2006.030] OpenPKG Security Advisory (ruby)

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OpenPKG Security Advisory OpenPKG GmbH
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OpenPKG-SA-2006.030 2006-11-04

Package: ruby
Vulnerability: denial of service
OpenPKG Specific: no

Affected Series: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
E1.0-SOLID <= ruby-1.8.5-E1.0.0 >= ruby-1.8.5-E1.0.1
2-STABLE-20061018 <= ruby-1.8.5-2.20061020 >= ruby-1.8.5-2.20061104
2-STABLE <= ruby-1.8.5-2.20061020 >= ruby-1.8.5-2.20061104
CURRENT <= ruby-1.8.5-20061013 >= ruby-1.8.5-20061104

Description:
According to a vendor security information [0], a Denial of Service
(DoS) vulnerability exists in the CGI library of the programming
language Ruby [1], versions up to and including 1.8.5. The problem
is triggered by sending the library an HTTP request that uses
multipart MIME encoding and has an invalid boundary specifier that
begins with "-" instead of "–". Once triggered it will exhaust all
available memory resources effectively creating a DoS condition. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
CVE-2006-5467 [2] to the problem.

References:
[0] http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/11/03/CVE-2006-5467/
[1] http://www.ruby-lang.org/
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5467

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