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Ruby on Rails: Resource Management Errors (CVE-2016-0751)

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Ruby on Rails: Resource Management Errors (CVE-2016-0751)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/16/2016
Created
01/23/2020
Added
01/03/2020
Modified
05/17/2023

Description

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 does not properly restrict use of the MIME type cache, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HTTP Accept header.

Solution(s)

  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-latest

References

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