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CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0983
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2004-0983

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17985

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-20-1

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-635.html

MANDRAKE
  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:128

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-586

BID
  11618


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