Resource management error in HttpComponents Client - CVE-2015-5262

Vulnerability identifier: #VU80908

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5262

CWE-ID: CWE-399

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

HttpComponents Client
Control Desk
B2B Advanced Communications
Multi-Enterprise Integration Gateway
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing
IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
IBM Spectrum Control
NetWorker
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
Fedora
Voice Gateway
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S)
jakarta-commons-httpclient
IBM Rational Asset Manager

Install updates from vendor's website.

HttpComponents Client - update to 4.3.6
B2B Advanced Communications - update to 1.0.0.8
Multi-Enterprise Integration Gateway - update to 1.0.0.8
Voice Gateway - update to 1.0.8.3
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S) - update to 1.10.14.0
jakarta-commons-httpclient - addressed in versions 3.1-20.fc21, 3.1-23.fc22, 3.1-23.fc23
IBM Spectrum Control - update to 5.4.10.2
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing - addressed in versions 7.0.1.23, 7.0.2.25
IBM Rational Asset Manager - update to 7.5.4.15
IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody - addressed in versions 9.0.1.0.6, 9.0.2.0.2, 10.0.0.1
NetWorker - addressed in versions 19.9.0.6, 19.10.0.3

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261538
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/167962.html
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1626784
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2769-1
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168030.html
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1478
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033743
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/167999.html
• https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2018-02-26/
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00032.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00033.html
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc%40%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E

• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Control Desk
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli Monitoring
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Voice Gateway
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Control
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S)
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM B2B Advanced Communications and IBM Multi-Enterprise Integration Gateway
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell NetWorker
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Rational Asset Manager
• Fedora 21 update for jakarta-commons-httpclient
• Fedora 22 update for jakarta-commons-httpclient
• Fedora 23 update for jakarta-commons-httpclient