CVE-2012-4517 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in ibacm before version 1.0.6, affecting openfabrics ibacm. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the ibacm service by sending a specially crafted join response due to improper management of reference counts for multicast connections. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it represents a medium-severity issue with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openfabrics:ibacm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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