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TITLE:
IBM Rational Build Forge Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30081

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30081/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
IBM Rational Build Forge 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/18542/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in IBM Rational Build Forge, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the Build Forge
Agent and can be exploited to spawn multiple bfagent processes and
consume large amounts of CPU resources by e.g. using a port scanner
on the vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is reported in version 7.0.2.

SOLUTION:
A testfix from Rational Client Support is available.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21303877

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