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A vulnerability was found in Ruby 1.8.1/1.8.5 (Programming Language Software). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:
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.
The bug was discovered 12/04/2008. The weakness was published 12/08/2008 as Bug 470252 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2008-4310 since 09/29/2008. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 34502 (CentOS 4 / 5 : ruby (CESA-2008:0897)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (47221) and Tenable (34502). Similar entries are available at 43674, 43673 and 43672.
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 34502
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 / 5 : ruby (CESA-2008:0897)
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OpenVAS ID: 880120
OpenVAS Name: Centreon command_name Parameter Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
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Timeline
08/11/2008 🔍09/29/2008 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: Bug 470252Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2008-4310 (🔍)
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X-Force: 47221
Vulnerability Center: 20302 - Ruby 1.8.1 and 1.8.5 WEBrick Remote Denial of Service via Crafted HTTP Request, High
SecurityFocus: 30644
Secunia: 33013 - Red Hat update for ruby, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 47471 - Ruby WEBrick httputils.rb denial of service
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Entry
Created: 03/17/2015 16:11Updated: 08/03/2021 13:27
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (72), 08/22/2019 17:00 (6), 08/03/2021 13:27 (4)
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