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ELSA-2008-0981 Moderate: Enterprise Linux ruby security update

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ELSA-2008-0981 Moderate: Enterprise Linux ruby security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

03/04/2008

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

07/04/2017

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.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-irb
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-docs
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-irb
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-libs
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-mode
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-rdoc
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-ri
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-tcltk

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2008-1145
APPLE-SA-2008-06-30
APPLE-SA-2009-05-12
28123
30644
TA09-133A
404515
CVE - 2008-1145
CVE - 2008-3656
CVE - 2008-4310
DSA-1651
DSA-1652
OVAL10250
OVAL10937
OVAL9682
RHSA-2008:0897
RHSA-2008:0981
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2008-December/000822.html
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2008-December/000823.html
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