FKIE_CVE-2008-4310

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-12-09 00:30 - Updated: 2025-04-09 00:30
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Summary
httputils.rb in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8.1 and 1.8.5, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted HTTP request. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3656.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/33013Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/33013Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ruby-lang ruby 1.8.1
ruby-lang ruby 1.8.5
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