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GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r

WEBrick Denial of Service Vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2008-4310

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
RubyGems webrick < 1.3.1 1.3.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.