Security Bulletin: Potential Denial of Service (DoS) security vulnerability in IBM Rational Synergy

VULNERABILITY DETAILS:

CVE ID: CVE-2011-4461

DESCRIPTION: IBM Rational Synergy is potentially vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks because one of its embedded components, Jetty, has a security vulnerability. The vulnerability is caused by insufficient randomization of hash data structures. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the consumption of CPU resources. Customers who are using IBM Rational Synergy may be impacted by this Jetty vulnerability which can cause performance or Denial of Service (DoS) issues.

CVSS:
CVSS Base Score: 2
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72017 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected Platforms: All Rational Synergy supported platforms

Remediation: Rational Synergy 7.2.0.X users should upgrade to Rational Synergy version 7.2.0.3 (Rational Synergy 7.2.0.3) and Rational Synergy 7.1.0.X users should move to Rational Synergy version 7.1.0.6 (Rational Synergy 7.1.0.6)

Workarounds: None known; apply fixes

Mitigation: Must upgrade to newer version of Rational Synergy as suggested above

References:
Complete CVSS Guide
CVE-2011-4461
X-Force Vulnerability Database (http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72017)

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Flash.

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