National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-5704
Original release date:11/01/2012
Last revised:11/01/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The Hotblocks module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.8 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with the "administer hotblocks" permission to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and time out) via a block that references itself.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://drupal.org/node/1732946
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://drupal.org/node/1732828
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20121007 Re: CVE Request for Drupal Contributed Modules
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20121004 CVE Request for Drupal Contributed Modules
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.madirish.net/543
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)