CVE-2010-2761

medium

Description

The multipart_init function in (1) CGI.pm before 3.50 and (2) Simple.pm in CGI::Simple 1.112 and earlier uses a hardcoded value of the MIME boundary string in multipart/x-mixed-replace content, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via crafted input that contains this value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3172.

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053665.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053678.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053576.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053591.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/01/1

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/01/2

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/01/3

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591165

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600464

http://secunia.com/advisories/42877

http://secunia.com/advisories/43033

http://secunia.com/advisories/43068

http://secunia.com/advisories/43147

http://secunia.com/advisories/43165

https://github.com/AndyA/CGI--Simple/commit/e4942b871a26c1317a175a91ebb7262eea59b380

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:237

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:250

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1797.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0076

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0207

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0249

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0271

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-12-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium