SB2012100102 - Denial of service in Drupal Drupal



SB2012100102 - Denial of service in Drupal Drupal

Published: October 1, 2012 Updated: November 22, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2012100102
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1588)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause service on the target system deny.

The weakness is caused by inefficient Drupal's text matching. Inability to filter texts and remove inappropriate HTML tags allows a malicious user to trigger denial of service.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may results in denial of service on the vulnerable system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.