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A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in Unisys Clearpath mainframes. Reportedly, it is possible to crash a Unisys system by initiating a typical port scan with the nmap or similar tools. It has been determined that the dynamic initialization feature in the ClearPath MCP environment is the cause of the high cpu utilization and excessive log entries.

A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in Unisys Clearpath mainframes. Reportedly, it is possible to crash a Unisys system by initiating a typical port scan with the nmap or similar tools. It has been determined that the dynamic initialization feature in the ClearPath MCP environment is the cause of the high cpu utilization and excessive log entries.