CVE-2019-8961 (GCVE-0-2019-8961)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-21 14:20
Modified
2024-08-04 21:31
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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