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IBM WebSphere Application Server: CVE-2019-12402: Denial of service vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server Liberty (CVE-2019-12402)

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IBM WebSphere Application Server: CVE-2019-12402: Denial of service vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server Liberty (CVE-2019-12402)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/30/2019
Created
01/03/2020
Added
01/03/2020
Modified
01/03/2020

Description

The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18 can get into an infinite loop when faced with specially crafted inputs. This can lead to a denial of service attack if an attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by Compress.

Solution(s)

  • ibm-was-install-8-5-ph17088-liberty
  • ibm-was-upgrade-8-5-19-0-0-9-liberty

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