QID 997219

Date Published: 2024-02-12

QID 997219: Rubygems (Rubygems) Security Update for webrick (GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r)

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.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.2 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.8 severity.

Solution

Refer to Github security advisory GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r for updates and patch information.

Vendor References

GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r - github.com/advisories/GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r

CVEs related to QID 997219

CVE-2008-4310 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r	webrick		github.com/advisories/GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r

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