Ruby Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2008-3656 - Vulnerability Database

Ruby Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2008-3656

High

Reference: CVE-2008-3656

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3656

Title: Ruby Resource Management Errors Vulnerability

Overview:

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the WEBrick::HTTPUtils.split_header_value function in WEBrick::HTTP::DefaultFileHandler in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71 and 1.9 through r18423 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted HTTP request that is processed by a backtracking regular expression.