PT-2007-6623 · Ibm · Ibm Director

Published 2007-11-21 · Updated 2017-07-29 · CVE-2007-5612

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM Director versions 5.20.1 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU consumption, connection slot exhaustion, and daemon crash, via a large number of idle connections.

Recommendations For IBM Director versions 5.20.1 and earlier, consider restricting incoming connections to prevent excessive idle connections until a fix is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-5612

Affected Products

Ibm Director

References · 8

• http://secunia.com/advisories/27752 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5612 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/26509 · Patch
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/512193 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MIMG-78YMXE · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1018985 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38583 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3942 · Note