Cisco ASA prior 8.0 SIP Inspection Feature denial of service

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A vulnerability has been found in Cisco ASA (Firewall Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component SIP Inspection Feature. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in the SIP inspection feature on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.0 before 8.0(5.17), 8.1 before 8.1(2.45), and 8.2 before 8.2(2.13) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via crafted SIP packets, aka Bug ID CSCtd32106.

The weakness was presented 08/09/2010 with Cisco (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2010-2816. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 56045 (Cisco ASA 5500 Series Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20100804-asa)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 43203 (Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances Multiple Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20100804-asa)).

Upgrading to version 8.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (56045), SecurityFocus (BID 42189†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-26685†).

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Local: No
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Nessus ID: 56045
Nessus Name: Cisco ASA 5500 Series Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20100804-asa)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: ASA 8.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2010-2816 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 42189 - Cisco ASA 5500 Series SIP Inspection (CVE-2010-2816) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 40842
Vulnerability Center: 26685 - [cisco-sa-20100804-asa] Cisco ASA 5500 SIP Transit Traffic Denial of Service Vulnerability, High

Entryinfo

Created: 03/19/2015 02:37 PM
Updated: 09/21/2021 11:49 PM
Changes: 03/19/2015 02:37 PM (56), 03/02/2017 10:58 AM (9), 09/21/2021 11:36 PM (4), 09/21/2021 11:49 PM (1)
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