CVE-2008-4310

high

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2

http://secunia.com/advisories/33013

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-12-09

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High