Vulnerability CVE-2019-8961
Published: 2020-04-21

Description:
A Denial of Service vulnerability related to stack exhaustion has been identified in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe 11.16.2. Because the message reading function calls itself recursively given a certain condition in the received message, an unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly send messages of that type to cause a stack exhaustion condition.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Flexera -> Flexnet publisher 

 References:
https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Publisher-Knowledge-Base/CVE-2019-8961-remediated-in-FlexNet-Publisher/ta-p/124601/jump-to/first-unread-message
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