CVE-2006-1931

Description

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.

Affected products

• yukihiro_matsumoto / ruby1.6 – 1.6
• yukihiro_matsumoto / ruby1.6.1 – 1.6.1
• yukihiro_matsumoto / ruby1.6.2 – 1.6.2
• yukihiro_matsumoto / ruby1.6.3 – 1.6.3
• yukihiro_matsumoto / ruby1.6.4 – 1.6.4
• yukihiro_matsumoto / ruby1.6.5 – 1.6.5
• yukihiro_matsumoto / ruby1.6.6 – 1.6.6
• yukihiro_matsumoto / ruby1.6.7 – 1.6.7
• yukihiro_matsumoto / ruby1.8 – 1.8
• yukihiro_matsumoto / ruby1.8.1 – 1.8.1

Exploits & proofs of concept

• exploit-dbYukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.x - XMLRPC Server Denial of Serviceby Tanaka Akira

References

• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19772
• MISChttp://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/27787
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/21657
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/16904
• MISCftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-webrick-dos-1.patch
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/273-1/
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/20024
• MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17645
• MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11100
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html
• MISChttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0427.html
• MISChttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26102
• MISChttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-11.xml
• MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189540
• MISChttp://securitytracker.com/id?1015978
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1157
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19804
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:079
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/20064
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/20457
• MISChttp://www.osvdb.org/24972
• MISCftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-xmlrpc-dos-1.patch