Description
The CGI module in Ruby 1.6 before 1.6.8, and 1.8 before 1.8.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a certain HTTP request.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- YUKIHIRO_MATSUMOTO
- Published
- 3/1/2005
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
yukihiro_matsumoto : rubyyukihiro_matsumoto : rubyyukihiro_matsumoto : rubyyukihiro_matsumoto : rubyyukihiro_matsumoto : rubyyukihiro_matsumoto : rubygentoo : linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linux_corporate_servermandrakesoft : mandrake_linux_corporate_serverubuntu : ubuntu_linuxubuntu : ubuntu_linux
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