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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2008-4310

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2008-4310

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities