CVE-2012-2190 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-2190?

CVE-2012-2190 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Websphere Application Server, published on 21 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Global Security Kit (aka GSKit), as used in IBM HTTP Server in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1.x before 6.1.0.45, 7.0.x before 7.0.0.25, 8.0.x before 8.0.0.4, and 8.5.x before 8.5.0.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted ClientHello message in the TLS Handshake Protocol.

Weakness: CWE-310

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2190?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Websphere Application Server.

How do I fix CVE-2012-2190?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-2190 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-2012-2190 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2190 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Websphere Application Server

• CVE-2015-1920 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-0462 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-1377 Security feature bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3186 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1899 Information disclosure in n/a Critical 10.0

All Ibm Websphere Application Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-v22f-x3qj-f766.