CVE-2008-4310 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/33013 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10250