PT-2004-1996 · Ruby · Ruby

Published 2004-11-19 · Updated 2018-10-03 · CVE-2004-0983

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ruby versions 1.6 before 1.6.8 Ruby versions 1.8 before 1.8.2

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop and CPU consumption, via a certain HTTP request to the CGI module.

Recommendations: For Ruby versions 1.6 before 1.6.8, update to version 1.6.8 or later. For Ruby versions 1.8 before 1.8.2, update to version 1.8.2 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0983

DSA-586-1

RHSA-2004:635

Affected Products

Ruby

References · 8

• https://usn.ubuntu.com/20-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:128 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/11618 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-635.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0983 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2004/dsa-586 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10268 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17985 · Note