CVE-2008-4310

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-12-04
Bugzilla:
470252: CVE-2008-4310 ruby: Incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3656

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-4310 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (ruby) RHSA-2008:0981 2008-12-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (ruby) RHSA-2008:0981 2008-12-04

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