Denial of service in IBM MQ - CVE-2017-1235
Published: November 20, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9353
CSH Severity: Low
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-2017-1235
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
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.
Affected software
IBM MQ
How to mitigate CVE-2017-1235
Update to version 8.0.0.7, 9.0.0.2, 9.0.4 or later.