UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000872

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000872

    Published: 20 Dec 2018Last Modified: 20 May 2026

    Summary:

    Details: OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000872, https://github.com/OpenKMIP/PyKMIP/issues/430, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000872

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-pykmip

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/python-pykmip?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.4.0-1
    0.4.0-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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