National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1931

Overview

The HTTP/XMLRPC server in Ruby before 1.8.2 uses blocking sockets, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked connections) via a large amount of data.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189540

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189540

External Source: MISC

Name: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/27787

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/27787

External Source: MISC

Name: ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-webrick-dos-1.patch

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-webrick-dos-1.patch

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11100

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11100

External Source: XF

Name: ruby-socket-dos(26102)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26102

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-273-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-273-1

External Source: BID

Name: 17645

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17645

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2006:0427

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0427.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 24972

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/24972

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2006:012

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:079

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:079

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200605-11

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-11.xml

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1157

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1157

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1015978

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015978

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21657

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21657

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20457

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20457

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20064

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20064

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20024

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20024

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19804

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19804

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19772

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19772

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 16904

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16904

External Source: MISC

Name: ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-xmlrpc-dos-1.patch

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-xmlrpc-dos-1.patch

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11100

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11100