ruby/webrick · Security
WEBrick Denial of Service Vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r
- CVE ID
- CVE-2008-4310
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4310 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html ↗
- https://github.com/ruby/webrick/commit/b2ccd5ff7ddd67a4548299e110dcc5a4728a5534 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111230125610/http://secunia.com/advisories/33013 ↗
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/webrick/CVE-2008-4310.yml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r ↗