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Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2017-1283

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 and 9.0 could allow an authenticated user to cause a shared memory leak by MQ applications using dynamic queues, which can lead to lack of resources for other MQ applications. IBM X-Force ID: 125144.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
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CWE-772 - Missing Release Of Resource After Effective Lifetime

'Missing release of resource after effective lifetime' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't sufficiently release a resource (e.g. memory, CPU, disk space, etc.) after it is used. If not addressed, attackers can launch a denial of service attack (by allocating a resource and not releasing it).

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published