CVE-2008-4310

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.

CVSS v2.0 7.8 HIGH

7.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
http://secunia.com/advisories/33013	Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.5:::::::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2008-12-09 00:30

Updated : 2023-11-07 02:02

NVD link : CVE-2008-4310

Mitre link : CVE-2008-4310

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2008-4310

JSON object : View

Products Affected

ruby-lang

ruby

CWE

CWE-399

Resource Management Errors

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