CVE-2006-5876

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-01-16 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Libsoup: 2.2.98

References

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2509
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.2/libsoup-2.2.99.news
http://osvdb.org/31667
http://secunia.com/advisories/23734
http://secunia.com/advisories/23770
http://secunia.com/advisories/23871
http://secunia.com/advisories/23873
http://secunia.com/advisories/23961
http://secunia.com/advisories/23976
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1248
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:029
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22034

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