Cisco Unified Communications Manager up to 5.1 resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Unified Communications Manager up to 5.1 (Unified Communication Software). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown functionality. 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:

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM, formerly CallManager) 5.1 before 5.1(2), and Unified CallManager 5.0, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a flood of SIP INVITE messages to UDP port 5060, which triggers resource exhaustion, aka CSCsi75822.

The bug was discovered 10/17/2007. The weakness was disclosed 10/17/2007 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at vupen.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2007-5537 since 10/17/2007. 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.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 5.1%282%29 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (37246). The entry 39328 is pretty similar.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Unified Communications Manager 5.1%282%29

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: vupen.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2007-5537 (🔍)
X-Force: 37246
SecurityTracker: 1018828
Vulnerability Center: 16598 - [cisco-sa-20071017-cucm] Cisco Unified Communications Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote DoS, Medium
SecurityFocus: 26105 - Cisco Unified Communications Manager Remote Denial of Service and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 27296
OSVDB: 37941 - Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) SIP INVITE Message Saturation Remote DoS
Vupen: ADV-2007-3532

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 12:18
Updated: 07/28/2019 09:13
Changes: 03/16/2015 12:18 (70), 07/28/2019 09:13 (1)
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