CVE-2004-0983
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2004-11-19 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 00:38
Severity ?
Summary
The CGI module in Ruby 1.6 before 1.6.8, and 1.8 before 1.8.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a certain HTTP request.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-586
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:128
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-635.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11618Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17985
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10268
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/20-1/
Impacted products
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