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CVE-2008-4310

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2008-12-09 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Ruby-Lang Ruby

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References