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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-8777: ruby security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-8777: ruby security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/03/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/03/2018
Modified
03/05/2020

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-ruby
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-ruby-libs

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