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.
Published: 2010-12-06
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 1.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-2765 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1129-1 Perl vulnerabilities
References
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http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LDS/CGI.pm-3.50/Changes cve-icon cve-icon
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 cve-icon cve-icon
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053665.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053678.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053576.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053591.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/01/1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/01/2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/01/3 cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/69588 cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/69589 cve-icon cve-icon
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blobdiff/a0b94c2432b1d8c20653453a0f6970cb10f59aec..84601d63a7e34958da47dad1e61e27cb3bd467d1:/cpan/CGI/lib/CGI.pm cve-icon cve-icon
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/84601d63a7e34958da47dad1e61e27cb3bd467d1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42877 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43033 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43147 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43165 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.2.9/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:237 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:250 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.changes/2010/11/msg28043.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1797.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0076 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0207 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0249 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0271 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591165 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600464 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/AndyA/CGI--Simple/commit/e4942b871a26c1317a175a91ebb7262eea59b380 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2761 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2761 cve-icon
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Andy Armstrong Cgi-simple Cgi.pm
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T02:46:47.287Z

Reserved: 2010-07-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-2761

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-12-06T20:12:58.653

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-2761

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2010-11-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-2761 - Bugzilla

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