CVE-2008-4310

Ruby < 1.3.1 - Resource Management Error

Title source: rule

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Keita Yamaguchi · rubydosmultiple

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32222

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (5)

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/33013

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250

Scores

EPSS 0.0579

EPSS Percentile 90.5%

Details

CWE

CWE-399

Status published

Products (3)

rubygems/webrick 0 - 1.3.1RubyGems

ruby-lang/ruby 1.8.1

ruby-lang/ruby 1.8.5

Published Dec 09, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026