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Hitachi Cosminexus JSSE SSL/TLS Handshake Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA27075
Release Date: 2007-10-05
Last Update: 2007-10-09
Popularity: 4,378 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Cosminexus 7.x
uCosminexus Application Server
uCosminexus Client
uCosminexus Developer
uCosminexus Operator
uCosminexus Service Architect
uCosminexus Service Platform

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-5281
CVE-2007-5286


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Hitachi Cosminexus, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the JSSE (Java Secure Socket Extension) of Cosminexus Developer's Kit for Java(TM) when handling invalid SSL/TLS handshake requests. This can be exploited to cause a DoS on an affected system that uses JSEE APIs to handle SSL/TLS connections.

This may be related to vulnerability #1 in:
SA26015

The vulnerability affects Cosminexus version 7.5 (see vendor's advisory for details).

Solution:
Please see the vendor's advisory for fix details.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2007-10-09: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.hitachi-support.com/security_e/vuls_e/HS07-031_e/index-e.html

Other References:
SA26015:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26015/


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