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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200611-12">
+ <title>Ruby: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ The Ruby cgi.rb CGI library is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">ruby</product>
+ <announced>2006-11-20</announced>
+ <revised count="02">2009-06-11</revised>
+ <bug>153497</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-lang/ruby" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.8.5-r3</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.5-r3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on
+ simplicity and productivity.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Zed Shaw, Jeremy Kemper, and Jamis Buck of the Mongrel project reported
+ that the CGI library shipped with Ruby is vulnerable to a remote Denial
+ of Service by an unauthenticated user.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ The vulnerability can be exploited by sending the cgi.rb library an
+ HTTP request with multipart MIME encoding that contains a malformed
+ MIME boundary specifier beginning with "-" instead of "--". Successful
+ exploitation of the vulnerability causes the library to go into an
+ infinite loop waiting for additional nonexistent input.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Ruby users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.5-r3"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5467">CVE-2006-5467</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-11-10T13:03:41Z">
+ aetius
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-11-15T21:17:28Z">
+ vorlon
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>