Denial of Service Vulnerability in spacewalk-backend in Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4

CVE-2012-1145 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

spacewalk-backend in Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 does not properly authorize or authenticate uploads to the NULL organization when mod_wsgi is used, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (/var partition disk consumption and failed updates) via a large number of package uploads.

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