Cisco ASA 1000V/5000 DNS Response resource management

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A vulnerability has been found in Cisco ASA 1000V/5000 (Firewall Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component DNS Response Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability.

The weakness was presented 10/21/2015 as cisco-sa-20151021-asa-dns1 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2015-6325 since 08/17/2015. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 93529 (Cisco ASA DNS Packet Handling DoS (cisco-sa-20151021-asa-dns1)), 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 43043 (Cisco ASA Software DNS Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20151021-asa-dns1)).

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (107412), Tenable (93529), SecurityFocus (BID 77260†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-53810†). See VDB-78720, VDB-78719 and VDB-78717 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Status: Unproven

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Nessus ID: 93529
Nessus Name: Cisco ASA DNS Packet Handling DoS (cisco-sa-20151021-asa-dns1)
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OpenVAS ID: 800316
OpenVAS Name: Cisco ASA DNS DoS Vulnerability
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-20151021-asa-dns1
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2015-6325 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-6325
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-78718
X-Force: 107412 - Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance DNS denial of service
SecurityFocus: 77260
SecurityTracker: 1033913
Vulnerability Center: 53810 - [cisco-sa-20151021-asa-dns1] Cisco ASA Remote DoS via Crafted Requests, High

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Created: 10/22/2015 10:03 AM
Updated: 11/18/2024 11:30 AM
Changes: 10/22/2015 10:03 AM (60), 02/15/2018 11:19 AM (8), 06/23/2022 07:43 PM (4), 06/23/2022 07:51 PM (1), 11/18/2024 11:30 AM (16)
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