SB2017083103 - Denial of service in Red Hat Certificate System
Published: August 31, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017083103
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7509)
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted certificate without a certreq field and cause the certificate service to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.