ubuntu · CVE-2016-0751

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-02-16 02:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:50:54 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-0751 medium priority: Ubuntu including 10 source packages (rails, rails-4.0, …), 120 status rows across 12 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 96, not-affected 13, ignored 9, released 2.

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.

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