CVE-2012-4556 (GCVE-0-2012-4556)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-01-04 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:42
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The token processing system (pki-tps) in Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) before 8.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Apache httpd web server child process restart) via certain unspecified empty search fields in a user certificate search query.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027846 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1550.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869579 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/51482 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56843 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
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