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ruby: denial of service

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CVE-2008-4310
Created:December 5, 2008 Updated:December 10, 2008
Description: ruby has a denial of service vulnerability. From the Red Hat security advisory: Vincent Danen reported, that Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0897 did not properly address a denial of service flaw in the WEBrick (Ruby HTTP server toolkit), known as CVE-2008-3656. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to send a specially-crafted HTTP request to a WEBrick server that would cause the server to use excessive CPU time. This update properly addresses this flaw. (CVE-2008-4310)
Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2008:0981 2008-12-05

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