CVE-2004-0983 - Dismayed Sorts

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.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11618 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-586 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-635.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:128 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17985 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10268 https://usn.ubuntu.com/20-1/