FKIE_CVE-2018-8777
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-04-03 22:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:05
Severity
Summary
In Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1, an attacker can pass a large HTTP request with a crafted header to WEBrick server or a crafted body to WEBrick server/handler and cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ruby-lang | ruby | * | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | * | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | * | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | * | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 2.6.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 17.10 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 6.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.4 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.5 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.6 |
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