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TITLE:
IBM Director CIM Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27752

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27752/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
IBM Director 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/6156/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in IBM Director, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to the improper handling of requests
being sent to the CIM server. This can be exploited to consume large
amounts of CPU and crash the server by establishing multiple
simultaneous connections to the CIM server.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 5.20.1 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Apply the vendor update.
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=dmp

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Juniper Networks.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=dmp

OTHER REFERENCES:
US-CERT VU#512193:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/512193

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