Jenkins Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)
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Affected versions
1.597 → fixed in 1.6000 → fixed in 1.596.1
Details
Jenkins before 1.600 and LTS before 1.596.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (improper plug-in and tool installation) via crafted update center data.
The fix
No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.
References
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1808
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0070
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205623
- PACKAGEhttps://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins
- WEBhttps://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2015-02-27
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1844.html