CVE-2012-4462 Denial of service in n/a
Medium 4.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2012-4462 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2012-4462 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Mrg, published on 12 Mar 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4462 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Redhat Enterprise Mrg. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-4462/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-4462/index.md)
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service by sending crafted square brackets in the cproc option during job removal.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2012-4462?
CVE-2012-4462 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Mrg, published on 12 Mar 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
aviary/jobcontrol.py in Condor, as used in Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3, when removing a job, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (condor_schedd restart) via square brackets in the cproc option.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4462?
It affects 2 products.
Linux distribution packages (40)
condor Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el5 |
condor-aviary Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el5 |
condor-classads Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el5 |
condor-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el5 |
condor-ec2-enhanced Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:1.3.0-2.el5 |
condor-ec2-enhanced-hooks Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:1.3.0-3.el5 |
condor-job-hooks Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:1.5-6.el5 |
condor-kbdd Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el5 |
condor-low-latency Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:1.2-3.el5 |
condor-qmf Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el5 |
condor-vm-gahp Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el5 |
condor-wallaby Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:5.0.5-2.el5 |
condor-wallaby-base-db Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:1.25-1.el5 |
condor-wallaby-client Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:5.0.5-2.el5 |
condor-wallaby-tools Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:5.0.5-2.el5 |
cumin Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:0.1.5675-1.el5 |
python-boto Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:2.3.0-1.1.el5 |
python-condorec2e Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:1.3.0-3.el5 |
python-condorutils Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:1.5-6.el5 |
python-wallaby Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:0.16.3-1.el5 |
python-wallabyclient Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:5.0.5-2.el5 |
ruby-condor-wallaby Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:5.0.5-2.el5 |
ruby-rhubarb Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:0.4.3-5.el5 |
ruby-spqr Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:0.3.6-3.el5 |
ruby-wallaby Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:0.16.3-1.el5 |
sesame Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:1.0-7.el5 |
sesame-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:1.0-7.el5 |
spqr-gen Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:0.3.6-3.el5 |
wallaby Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:0.16.3-1.el5 |
wallaby-utils Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2::el5 | All versions | 0:0.16.3-1.el5 |
condor Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2:computenode:el6 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el6 |
condor-classads Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2:computenode:el6 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el6 |
condor-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2:computenode:el6 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el6 |
condor-job-hooks Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2:computenode:el6 | All versions | 0:1.5-6.el6 |
condor-kbdd Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2:computenode:el6 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el6 |
condor-low-latency Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2:computenode:el6 | All versions | 0:1.2-3.el6 |
condor-qmf Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2:computenode:el6 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el6 |
condor-vm-gahp Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2:computenode:el6 | All versions | 0:7.8.8-0.4.1.el6 |
condor-wallaby Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2:computenode:el6 | All versions | 0:5.0.5-2.el6 |
condor-wallaby-base-db Red Hat:enterprise_mrg:2:computenode:el6 | All versions | 0:1.25-1.el6_3 |
Products include Condor Project Condor, Redhat Enterprise Mrg.
How do I fix CVE-2012-4462?
Apply the vendor's patch.
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-2012-4462 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4462 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Enterprise Mrg
Sources
Also known as GHSA-g8fv-4vr4-3m6h, RHSA-2013:0564, RHSA-2013:0565.