Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-3656 to the following vulnerability: Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in WEBrick::HTTP::DefaultFileHandler in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.5 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. Refences: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494401 http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/08/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-ruby/
Created attachment 314212 [details] Proposed patch
ruby-1.8.6.287-2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ruby-1.8.6.287-2.fc8
ruby-1.8.6.287-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ruby-1.8.6.287-2.fc9
ruby-1.8.6.287-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
ruby-1.8.6.287-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Created attachment 322637 [details] Correct patch for this issue The previous patch is actually for CVE-2008-1145. This is the proper patch for CVE-2008-3656