CVE-2009-0435 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can crash the WebSphere Application Server daemon via specific AIO library methods, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not stated
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2009-0435?
CVE-2009-0435 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Websphere Application Server, published on 10 Feb 2009. It can be exploited over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in the IBM Asynchronous I/O (aka AIO or libibmaio) library in the Java Message Service (JMS) component in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1.x before 6.1.0.17 on AIX 5.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via vectors related to the aio_getioev2 and getEvent methods.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-0435?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Websphere Application Server.
How do I fix CVE-2009-0435?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-0435 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2009-0435 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-0435 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Websphere Application Server
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cxf4-w73j-67cr.