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TIP/eWAS fix for Apache Ant DoS Vulnerability CVE-2012-2098

Question & Answer


Question

When will the fix for Apache Ant DoS Vulnerability CVE-2012-2098 be available in WebSphere and Tivoli Integrated Portal?

Cause

The bzip2 compressing streams in Apache Ant internally use sorting
algorithms with unacceptable worst-case performance on very repetitive
inputs. A specially crafted input to Ants' <bzip2> task can be used to
make the process spend a very long time while using up all available
processing time effectively leading to a denial of service.

Answer

Vulnerability CVE-2012-2098 will be fixed in WebSphere 7.0.0 FP 31.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

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