CVE-2019-8960

Summary

CVECVE-2019-8960
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-21 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-04-28 19:42:00 UTC
DescriptionA Denial of Service vulnerability related to command handling has been identified in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe version 11.16.2. The message reading function used in lmadmin.exe can, given a certain message, call itself again and then wait for a further message. With a particular flag set in the original message, but no second message received, the function eventually return an unexpected value which leads to an exception being thrown. The end result can be process termination.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-754

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Flexera Flexnet Publisher 11.16.2 All All All
Application Flexera Flexnet Publisher 11.16.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2019-8960 remediated in FlexNet Publisher - Community CONFIRM community.flexera.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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