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Debian: CVE-2018-8777: ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1, ruby2.5 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-8777: ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1, ruby2.5 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/03/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/02/2018
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

In Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1, an attacker can pass a large HTTP request with a crafted header to WEBrick server or a crafted body to WEBrick server/handler and cause a denial of service (memory consumption).

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-ruby1-8
  • debian-upgrade-ruby1-9-1
  • debian-upgrade-ruby2-5

References

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