Shared memory leak in IBM MQ - CVE-2017-1283

 

Shared memory leak in IBM MQ - CVE-2017-1283

Published: December 6, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9546
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1283
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: IBM Corporation
Affected software:
IBM MQ

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to a shared memory leak. A remote attacker can use MQ applications using dynamic queues to trigger shared memory leak and cause lack of resources for other MQ applications.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-1283

Update to version 8.0.0.7, 9.0.0.2 or 9.0.4.

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