CVE-2006-1931

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.

🔗 References (44)

• secalert@redhatftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-webrick-dos-1.patch
• secalert@redhatftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-xmlrpc-dos-1.patch
• secalert@redhathttp://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/27787
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/16904
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/19772
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/19804
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/20024
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/20064
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/20457
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/21657
• secalert@redhathttp://securitytracker.com/id?1015978
• secalert@redhathttp://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1157
• secalert@redhathttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-11.xml
• secalert@redhathttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:079
• secalert@redhathttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html