Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks.
Vincent Danen reported, that Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0897 did not properly address a denial of service flaw in the WEBrick (Ruby HTTP server toolkit), known as CVE-2008-3656. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to send a specially-crafted HTTP request to a WEBrick server that would cause the server to use excessive CPU time. This update properly addresses this flaw. (CVE-2008-4310)
All Ruby users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a correct patch that resolves this issue.
Affected
irb on CentOS 4
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-3656, CVE-2008-4310 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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