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CVE-2009-0879 (GCVE-0-2009-0879)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-03-12 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:48
VLAI
Summary
The CIM server in IBM Director before 5.20.3 Service Update 2 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long consumer name, as demonstrated by an M-POST request to a long /CIMListener/ URI.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://osvdb.org/52615 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501638/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/34212 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg… x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021825 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34061 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8190 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://www.sec-consult.com/files/20090305-1_IBM_… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2009-03-10 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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