Cisco PIX 7.2/8.0/8.1 denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cisco PIX 7.2/8.0/8.1 (Firewall Software). This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the SIP inspection functionality in Cisco PIX and Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500 devices 7.0 before 7.0(7)16, 7.1 before 7.1(2)71, 7.2 before 7.2(4)7, 8.0 before 8.0(3)20, and 8.1 before 8.1(1)8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via unknown vectors, aka Bug IDs CSCsq07867, CSCsq57091, CSCsk60581, and CSCsq39315.

The bug was discovered 09/03/2008. The weakness was published 09/04/2008 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-2732 since 06/16/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading to version 8.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (44866). Similar entries are available at 43899, 43898, 43897 and 43896.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: PIX 8.1

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-2732 (🔍)
X-Force: 44866
SecurityTracker: 1020808
Vulnerability Center: 19364 - [cisco-sa-20080903-asa] Cisco PIX / ASA Erroneous SIP Processing Vulnerabilities, High
SecurityFocus: 30998 - Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA Multiple Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 31730
OSVDB: 47920 - Cisco PIX and ASA SIP inspection denial of service

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/16/2019 11:37
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (62), 08/16/2019 11:37 (8)
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