CVE-2013-0183
EPSS 1.8%Rack rubygems receiving excessively long lines triggers out-of-memory error
Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
multipart/parser.rb in Rack 1.3.x before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and out-of-memory error) via a long string in a Multipart HTTP packet.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/ruby-rackfrom 0, < 1.4.1-2.1
- RubyGems/rack>= 1.3.0, < 1.3.8
References (18)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0183
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0183
- PATCHhttps://github.com/rack/rack
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html
- WEBhttp://rack.github.com
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0544.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0548.html
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0544
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0183
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895282
- WEBhttps://github.com/rack/rack/commit/548b9af2dc0059f4c0c19728624448d84de450ff
- WEBhttps://github.com/rack/rack/commit/f95113402b7239f225282806673e1b6424522b18
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2013-0183.yml
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rack-devel/7ZKPNAjgRSs
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rack-devel/-MWPHDeGWtI
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rack-devel/7ZKPNAjgRSs
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rack-devel/-MWPHDeGWtI
- WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2783