CVE-2012-4555

Summary

CVECVE-2012-4555
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-01-04 22:55:00 UTC
Updated2013-01-07 15:41:00 UTC
DescriptionThe token processing system (pki-tps) in Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) before 8.1.3 does not properly handle interruptions of token format operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and Apache httpd web server child process crash) via unspecified vectors.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Redhat Certificate System 7.1 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 7.2 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 7.3 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 8 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 8.1 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 7.1 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 7.2 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 7.3 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 8 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System 8.1 All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Certificate System Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Security Advisory SA51482 - Red Hat update for pki - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Certificate System Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting and Denial of Service Attacks - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
869570 – (CVE-2012-4555) CVE-2012-4555 pki-tps: Temporary denial of service on interrupted token format operations MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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