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Sid
15435

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in director.

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Impact:
Denial of Service.   

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Detailed Information:
The CIM server in IBM Director before 5.20.3 Service Update 2 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long consumer name, as demonstrated by an M-POST request to a long /CIMListener/ URI.

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Affected Systems:
ibm director 3.1.1
ibm director 4.10
ibm director 4.11
ibm director 4.12
ibm director 4.20
ibm director 4.21
ibm director 4.22
ibm director 5.10.0
ibm director 5.10.1
ibm director 5.10.2
ibm director 5.10.3
ibm director 5.20.0
ibm director 5.20.1
ibm director 5.20.2
ibm director 5.20.3

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2009-0879:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-0879
  
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