Cisco FirePOWER/ASA/AMP Advanced Malware Protection Packet resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco FirePOWER, ASA and AMP. It has been rated as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the component Advanced Malware Protection. The manipulation as part of Packet leads to resource management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2016-6368. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco FirePOWER, ASA and AMP (Firewall Software) (version unknown) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Advanced Malware Protection. The manipulation as part of a Packet leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the detection engine parsing of Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) protocol packets for Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due to the Snort process unexpectedly restarting. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation of the fields in the PGM protocol packet. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted PGM packet to the detection engine on the targeted device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition if the Snort process restarts and traffic inspection is bypassed or traffic is dropped. This vulnerability affects Cisco Firepower System Software that has one or more file action policies configured and is running on any of the following Cisco products: Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500-X Series with FirePOWER Services; Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls; Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks, 7000 Series Appliances; Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks, 8000 Series Appliances; Firepower 4100 Series Security Appliances; FirePOWER 7000 Series Appliances; FirePOWER 8000 Series Appliances; Firepower 9300 Series Security Appliances; FirePOWER Threat Defense for Integrated Services Routers (ISRs); Industrial Security Appliance 3000; Sourcefire 3D System Appliances; Virtual Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPSv) for VMware. Fixed versions: 5.4.0.10 5.4.1.9 6.0.1.3 6.1.0 6.2.0. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCuz00876.

The bug was discovered 04/19/2017. The weakness was presented 04/20/2017 as cisco-sa-20170419-fpsnort as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at tools.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-6368 since 07/26/2016. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 100424 (Cisco Firepower Detection Engine Pragmatic General Multicast Protocol Decoding DoS (cisco-sa-20170419-fpsnort)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (100424) and SecurityFocus (BID 97932†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 100424
Nessus Name: Cisco Firepower Detection Engine Pragmatic General Multicast Protocol Decoding DoS (cisco-sa-20170419-fpsnort)
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OpenVAS ID: 103403
OpenVAS Name: Cisco Firepower Detection Engine Pragmatic General Multicast Protocol Decoding Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-20170419-fpsnort
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-6368 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-6368
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-100373
SecurityFocus: 97932 - Cisco Firepower System Software CVE-2016-6368 Denial of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: - CVE-2016-6368 - Cisco - FirePOWER - Denial of Service Issue

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Created: 04/21/2017 09:58
Updated: 11/26/2024 19:44
Changes: 04/21/2017 09:58 (79), 11/26/2024 19:44 (28)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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