CVE-2019-8961 Information

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability related to stack exhaustion has been identified in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe 11.16.2. Because the message reading function calls itself recursively given a certain condition in the received message an unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly send messages of that type to cause a stack exhaustion condition.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Publisher-Knowledge-Base/CVE-2019-8961-remediated-in-FlexNet-Publisher/ta-p/124601/jump-to/first-unread-message

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5