Intel Puma 5/6/7 on Samsung Packet denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Intel Puma 5/6/7 on Samsung. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. This manipulation as part of Packet causes denial of service. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-15073. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to implement restrictive firewalling.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Intel Puma 5/6/7 on Samsung and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation as part of a Packet 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:

The Intel Puma 5, 6, and 7 chips, as used on Samsung Home Media Server devices, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (performance degradation) by sending a moderate volume of small packets to many TCP or UDP ports. NOTE: Intel has advised that they are only a hardware manufacturer in this instance; they do NOT own the mitigation distribution channel for these chips. Any details about mitigations would need to come from Samsung.

The bug was discovered 11/29/2016. The weakness was released 10/06/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at badmodems.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-15073 since 10/06/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 311 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Proper firewalling of is able to address this issue.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-107572, VDB-107573, VDB-107574 and VDB-107575. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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11/29/2016 🔍
10/06/2017 +311 days 🔍
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11/22/2019 +776 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: intel.com

Advisory: badmodems.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2017-15073 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-15073
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-107581
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Entryinfo

Created: 10/07/2017 12:22
Updated: 11/22/2019 19:48
Changes: 10/07/2017 12:22 (42), 11/22/2019 19:48 (2)
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