CVE-2012-6109

Summary

CVECVE-2012-6109
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-03-01 05:40:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 00:27:00 UTC
Descriptionlib/rack/multipart.rb in Rack before 1.1.4, 1.2.x before 1.2.6, 1.3.x before 1.3.7, and 1.4.x before 1.4.2 uses an incorrect regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted Content-Disposion header.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rack Project Rack 0.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.2 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.3 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.4 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.9 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.9.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.0.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.0.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.1.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.1.2 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.2.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.2.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.2.2 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.2.3 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.2.4 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.2 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.3 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.4 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.5 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.6 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.4.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.4.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.2 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.3 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.4 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.9 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 0.9.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.0.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.0.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.1.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.1.2 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.2.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.2.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.2.2 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.2.3 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.2.4 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.2 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.3 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.4 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.5 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.3.6 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.4.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack 1.4.1 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Rack: a Ruby Webserver Interface CONFIRM rack.github.com
Fix parsing performance for unquoted filenames · rack/rack@c9f65df · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
rack/README.rdoc at master · rack/rack · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Google Groups MISC groups.google.com
CVE-2012-6109 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Bug 895277 – CVE-2012-6109 rubygem-rack: parsing Content-Disposition header DoS MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Google Groups MISC groups.google.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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