CVE-2006-5467 Denial of service in n/a
Medium 5.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2006-5467 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2006-5467 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Oct 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5467 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-5467/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-5467/index.md)
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via infinite loop in Ruby's CGI library by sending malformed multipart MIME requests.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2006-5467?
CVE-2006-5467 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Oct 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5467?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (40)
irb Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-docs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-tcltk Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
irb Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-docs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-tcltk Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
irb Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-docs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
ruby-tcltk Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws | All versions | 0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4 |
irb Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-docs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-mode Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-tcltk Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
irb Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-docs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-mode Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-tcltk Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
irb Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-docs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
ruby-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8 |
Products include Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby.
How do I fix CVE-2006-5467?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-5467 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5467 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DSA-1234-1, DSA-1235-1, GHSA-cgqx-jwj4-2jc4, RHSA-2006:0729.