CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-2191

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2012-08-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-08-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

IBM Global Security Kit (aka GSKit) before 8.0.14.22, as used in IBM Rational Directory Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, and other products, does not properly validate data during execution of a protection mechanism against the Vaudenay SSL CBC timing attack, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted values in the TLS Record Layer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2333.

Affected configurations

• ibm global security kit (<= 8.0.13) • ibm global security kit 7.0.4.28 • ibm global security kit 7.0.4.29 • ibm rational directory server • ibm tivoli directory server

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References