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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2013.0473 Denial of service in IBM InfoSphere Data Replication Dashboard 4 April 2013 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: IBM InfoSphere Data Replication Dashboard Publisher: IBM Operating System: AIX Linux variants Windows Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2011-4461 Reference: ESB-2012.1217 ESB-2012.1214 ESB-2012.0937 ESB-2012.0926 Original Bulletin: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21632399 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Security Bulletin: Denial of service in IBM InfoSphere Data Replication Dashboard (CVE-2011-4461) Flash (Alert) Document information InfoSphere Replication Server Monitoring Software version: 9.7, 10.1.0.1, 10.1.0.2, 10.1.0.3, 10.1.0.4 Operating system(s): AIX, Linux, Linux zSeries, Platform Independent, Windows, z/OS Reference #: 1632399 Modified date: 2013-03-29 Abstract InfoSphere Data Replication Dashboard includes Jetty which has a known security vulnerability that can lead to a denial of service. Content VULNERABILITY DETAILS: CVE ID: CVE-2011-4461 DESCRIPTION: An attacker, using specially crafted HTTP requests, can cause up to 100% CPU usage, rendering the InfoSphere Data Replication Dashboard unusable. This denial of service can last up to several hours depending on the targeted application and server performance. The amplification effect is considerable and requires little bandwidth and time on the attacker side. CVSS: CVSS Base Score: 5 CVSS Temporal Score: See (http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72017) for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) AFFECTED PLATFORMS: Versions 10.1 and 9.7 of InfoSphere Data Replication Dashboard are affected. REMEDIATION: The recommended solution is to upgrade the product to the latest version. Please see below the information on the fixes available. FIX: The vulnerability fixes require upgrading the product to version 10.2 or higher. Download the latest version of InfoSphere Data Replication Dashboard from http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24023065 WORKAROUND: None known. MITIGATION: None known. REFERENCES: Complete CVSS Guide (http://www.first.org/cvss/cvss-guide.html) On-line Calculator V2 (http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator&adv&version=2) X-Force Vulnerability Database (http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72017) CVE-2011-4461 (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4461) RELATED INFORMATION: IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog CHANGE HISTORY: Mar 8, 2013: Original version published *The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Flash. 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