CVE-2015-6849 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-6849?

CVE-2015-6849 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 5 Dec 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

EMC NetWorker before 8.0.4.5, 8.1.x before 8.1.3.6, 8.2.x before 8.2.2.2, and 9.0 before build 407 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process outage) via malformed RPC authentication messages.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6849?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Emc Networker.

How do I fix CVE-2015-6849?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-6849 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-2015-6849 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6849 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2006-3892 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-0916 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2012-4607 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2012-2288 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2012-0395 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-x68j-xgv9-w7f2.