SB2017111608 - Denial of service in IBM WebSphere MQ
Published: November 20, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017111608
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1235)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to an error during an MQGET call of a client application running on a channel with SHARECNV=1. A remote atatcker can cause a SIGSEGV and termination of the channel agent process.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.