IBM MQ, IBM MQ Appliance, IBM MQ for HPE NonStop 8.0, 9.1 CD, and 9.1 LTS could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service due to a memory leak caused by an error creating a dynamic queue. IBM X-Force ID: 179080.
Weakness
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.
Affected Software
| Name |
Vendor |
Start Version |
End Version |
| Mq_appliance |
Ibm |
8.0 (including) |
8.0.0.15 (excluding) |
| Mq_appliance |
Ibm |
9.1.0.0 (including) |
9.1.0.6 (excluding) |
| Mq_appliance |
Ibm |
9.1.0.0 (including) |
9.2.0.0 (excluding) |
Potential Mitigations
- Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
- For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
- When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
- To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.
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