CVE-2008-3656

CVE-2008-3656

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60Vexday Risk Score

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ssvc Attendepss 70%
from disclosure to weaponsame day
Published on NVDAug 13
1st PoCAug 11
metasploitAug 8
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Red HatVEX document ↗
Fixed
8 products (387 components)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 · and others 3
fix ↗
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the WEBrick::HTTPUtils.split_header_value function in WEBrick::HTTP::DefaultFileHandler in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted HTTP request that is processed by a backtracking regular expression.
Affected products
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