HIGH

GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r

WEBrick Denial of Service Vulnerability

Quick fix

GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r — webrick: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update webrick

Details

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.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/webrick

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.3.1

Fixbundle update webrick

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4310[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/ruby/webrick/commit/b2ccd5ff7ddd67a4548299e110dcc5a4728a5534[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252[WEB]
https://github.com/ruby/webrick[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/webrick/CVE-2008-4310.yml[WEB]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20111230125610/http://secunia.com/advisories/33013[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2[WEB]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html[WEB]