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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5876 Detail

Description

The 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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Not 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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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2509 CVE, MITRE
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.2/libsoup-2.2.99.news CVE, MITRE
http://osvdb.org/31667 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23734 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23770 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23871 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23873 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23961 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23976 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1248 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:029 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22034 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-411-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0173 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31519 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-965 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5876
NVD Published Date:
01/16/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE