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TITLE:
IBM WebSphere MQ Channel Control Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39636

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39636/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the
handling of channel control flow and can be exploited to cause the MQ
server channel process to crash via specially crafted channel control
data.

Successful exploitation requires authentication.

The vulnerability is reported in version prior to 7.0.1.2.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability will be fixed in version 7.0.1.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by IBM X-Force.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
IBM X-Force:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/58039

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