SB2017122208 - Denial of service in IBM MQ
Published: December 22, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017122208
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-2017-1557)
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker with authority to connect to a remote queue manager can send a malicious request, cause undefined behaviour within the channel process servicing that connection, including a loss of service for other connections being serviced by the same channel process.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.