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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cisco IOS XR 4.3.1 (Router Operating System). This affects an unknown code block of the component UDP Packet Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:
The UDP process in Cisco IOS XR 4.3.1 does not free packet memory upon detecting full packet queues, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via UDP packets to listening ports, aka Bug ID CSCue69413.
The weakness was published 10/02/2013 as cisco-sa-20131002-iosxr as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at tools.cisco.com. The public release has been coordinated with Cisco. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2013-5503 since 08/22/2013. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 71437 (Cisco IOS XR Software Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20131002-iosxr)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO.
Upgrading to version 4.3.2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (71437).
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Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 71437
Nessus Name: Cisco IOS XR Software Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20131002-iosxr)
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Upgrade: IOS XR 4.3.2
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Vendor: cisco.comAdvisory: cisco-sa-20131002-iosxr
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-5503 (🔍)
Vulnerability Center: 41771 - [cisco-sa-20131002-iosxr] Cisco IOS XR 4.3.1 Remote DoS via UDP Packets, High
SecurityFocus: 62770
OSVDB: 98022
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
Entry
Created: 10/03/2013 17:09Updated: 05/26/2021 09:06
Changes: 10/03/2013 17:09 (46), 05/12/2017 14:20 (23), 05/26/2021 09:06 (3)
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