CVE-2012-6109

NameCVE-2012-6109
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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs698440

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ruby-rack (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye2.1.4-3+deb11u2fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)2.2.6.4-1+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2.2.7-1.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
librack-rubysourcesqueeze(not affected)
librack-rubysource(unstable)(unfixed)
ruby-racksource(unstable)1.4.1-2.1698440

Notes

[squeeze] - librack-ruby <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)
https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/4fc44671b3cad569421f4f8b775c0590b86f575e
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rack-devel/1w4_fWEgTdI/XAkSNHjtdTsJ

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