Security Bulletin: Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Remote Control Broker denial of service (CVE-2012-4841)

VULNERABILITY DETAILS:

CVE IDs: CVE-2012-4841

DESCRIPTION

Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Remote Control Broker can suffer from a denial of service and exhausting of system resources

CVEID: CVE-2012-4841
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/79125 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)


AFFECTED PRODUCTS AND VERSIONS:
Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Remote Control 8.2

REMEDIATION:
Required for installations of broker component v8.2.1 (build 0024).
To resolve this issue, upgrade existing installations with the broker component included in
Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Remote Control Fix pack 8.2.1-TIV-TEMRC821-IF0002. This can be downloaded from Fix Central. For more information see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24033728

Workaround(s):
None.

Mitigation(s):
None


REFERENCES:
· Complete CVSS Guide
· On-line Calculator V2
· CVE-2012-4841
· X-Force Vulnerability Database http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/79125

RELATED INFORMATION:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
None

CHANGE HISTORY
None

*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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