Red Hat: CVE-2018-8777: Moderate: ruby security update (Multiple Advisories)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
04/03/2018
08/08/2019
08/07/2019
03/03/2021
Description
In Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1, an attacker can pass a large HTTP request with a crafted header to WEBrick server or a crafted body to WEBrick server/handler and cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-ruby
- redhat-upgrade-ruby-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-ruby-devel
- redhat-upgrade-ruby-doc
- redhat-upgrade-ruby-irb
- redhat-upgrade-ruby-libs
- redhat-upgrade-ruby-tcltk
- redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
- redhat-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
- redhat-upgrade-rubygem-json
- redhat-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
- redhat-upgrade-rubygem-psych
- redhat-upgrade-rubygem-rake
- redhat-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
- redhat-upgrade-rubygems
- redhat-upgrade-rubygems-devel
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