ADVISORIES

• CVE-2008-4310 (NVD)
• GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

webrick

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 7.8 (High)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 1.3.1

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.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4310
• https://github.com/ruby/webrick/commit/b2ccd5ff7ddd67a4548299e110dcc5a4728a5534
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20111230125610/http://secunia.com/advisories/33013
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r