CVE-2019-8960

High

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability related to command handling has been identified in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe version 11.16.2. The message reading function used in lmadmin.exe can, given a certain message, call itself again and then wait for a further message. With a particular flag set in the original message, but no second message received, the function eventually return an unexpected value which leads to an exception being thrown. The end result can be process termination.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductFlexera Flexnet Publisher
PublishedApr 21, 2020
First seenApr 21, 2020

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
flexera flexnet_publisher11.16.2—

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