Cisco Unified Presence up to 8.x memory corruption

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cisco Unified Presence up to 8.x. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Cisco Unified Presence (CUP) before 8.6(3) and Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (aka Jabber XCP) before 5.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted XMPP stream header, aka Bug ID CSCtu32832.

The weakness was shared 09/12/2012 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared for download at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2012-3935 since 07/10/2012. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 69425 (Cisco Unified Presence Server DoS (cisco-sa-20120912-cupxcp)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO.

Upgrading to version 8.6%281%29 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (78457) and Tenable (69425).

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 69425
Nessus Name: Cisco Unified Presence Server DoS (cisco-sa-20120912-cupxcp)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Unified Presence 8.6%281%29

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: tools.cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2012-3935 (🔍)
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X-Force: 78457
SecurityTracker: 1027520 - Cisco Unified Presence and Jabber Extensible Communications Platform Stream Header Processing Flaw Lets Remote Users Deny Service
Vulnerability Center: 36174 - [cisco-sa-20120912-cupxcp] Cisco CUP Before 8.6(3) and Jabber XCP Before 5.3 Allows Remote DoS via a Crafted XMPP Stream Header, High
SecurityFocus: 55514 - Cisco Unified Presence and Jabber XCP CVE-2012-3935 Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 50562 - Cisco Unified Presence / Jabber XCP Stream Header Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 85421

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Created: 03/24/2015 12:22
Updated: 12/13/2021 19:28
Changes: 03/24/2015 12:22 (61), 04/17/2017 11:03 (17), 12/13/2021 19:28 (3)
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