Resource Exhaustion Affecting ruby-doc package, versions <0:2.0.0.648-36.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.76% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RUBYDOC-4898316
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Mar 2018

Introduced: 28 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-8777  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ruby-doc to version 0:2.0.0.648-36.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2028.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-doc package and not the ruby-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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).