SB2018032819 - Denial of service in IBM MQ
Published: March 28, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018032819
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-2017-1747)
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 can send specially crafted message and cause a denial of service in IBM MQ applications consuming messages that it needs to perform data conversion on.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.