CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4310
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• ruby-lang ruby 1.8.1
• ruby-lang ruby 1.8.5
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33013 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html www.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33013 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html www.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250 oval.cisecurity.org