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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1891
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CVE-2008-1891

Description:
Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2, when using NTFS or FAT filesystems, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary CGI files via a trailing (1) + (plus), (2) %2b (encoded plus), (3) . (dot), (4) %2e (encoded dot), or (5) %20 (encoded space) character in the URI, possibly related to the WEBrick::HTTPServlet::FileHandler and WEBrick::HTTPServer.new functionality and the :DocumentRoot option.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41824

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA29794
  Secunia Advisory: SA30831
  Secunia Advisory: SA31687

MISC
  http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/webrickcgi-adv.txt

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:140

FEDORA

CONFIRM
  http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/06/20/arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerabilities/


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