CVE-2004-0983: Gentoo Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Gentoo Linux: any version
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 9.2 only; version 10.0 only; version 10.1 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: version 2.1 only
• Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux: version 4.1 only
• Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby: version 1.6 only; version 1.6.7 only; version 1.8 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2_pre1 only; version 1.8.2_pre2 only

Published 2005-03-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.