CVE-2015-4951 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-4951?

CVE-2015-4951 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Jan 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD) in the client in IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager) 5.5 and 6.x before 6.3.2.5, 6.4 before 6.4.3.1, and 7.1 before 7.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted Web client URL.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4951?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Tivoli Storage Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4951?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-4951 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-2015-4951 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4951 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2009-3854 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1178 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-4563 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-5855 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-8937 Information disclosure in Spectrum Protect Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-h8pw-97xw-5hhc.