Ruby Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2008-4310 - Vulnerability Database

Ruby Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2008-4310

High

Reference: CVE-2008-4310

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4310

Title: Ruby Resource Management Errors Vulnerability

Overview:

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.