CVE-2006-5876

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5876
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-01-16 19:28:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe soup_headers_parse function in soup-headers.c for libsoup HTTP library before 2.2.99 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed HTTP headers, probably involving missing fields or values.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libsoup Libsoup 2.2.98 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Mandriva update for libsoup - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-965 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
USN-411-1: libsoup vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
osvdb.org/31667 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Debian update for libsoup - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
libsoup "soup_headers_parse()" Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
LibSoup Library HTTP Headers Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
rPath update for libsoup - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Ubuntu update for libsoup - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Fedora update for libsoup - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 fedoranews.org
ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.2/libsoup-2.2.99.news af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.gnome.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1248-1 libsoup af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. The vulnerable code is not used by any application likned with libsoup shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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