CVE-2012-4517

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-10-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

ibacm before 1.0.6 does not properly manage reference counts for multicast connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ibacm service crash) via a crafted join response.

Affected products

Openfabrics Ibacm: through 1.0.5

References

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.rdma/11659
http://git.openfabrics.org/git?p=~shefty/ibacm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c7d28b35d64333c262de3ec972c426423dadccf9
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0509.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/11/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/11/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55890
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865492
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79396
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.rdma/11659
http://git.openfabrics.org/git?p=~shefty/ibacm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c7d28b35d64333c262de3ec972c426423dadccf9
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0509.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/11/6

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