Cisco 3800 Content Engine denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco 3800. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Content Engine Module. Performing a manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability was named CVE-2005-0036. There is no available exploit. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cisco 3800 (version unknown). This affects an unknown function of the component Content Engine Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

The DNS implementation in DeleGate 8.10.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed DNS packet with a label length byte with an incorrect offset, which could trigger an infinite loop.

The weakness was presented 05/24/2005 by Dr. Steve Beaty with Metropolitan State College of Denver (Website). The advisory is shared at cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-0036 since 01/07/2005. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at cisco.com. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 2812.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (20712), SecurityFocus (BID 13729†), OSVDB (25291†), Secunia (SA15472†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-8301†). See VDB-1524, VDB-1520, VDB-1530 and VDB-1519 for similar entries. 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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Patch: cisco.com
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Researcher: Dr. Steve Beaty
Organization: Metropolitan State College of Denver
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-0036 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-0036
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-1533
X-Force: 20712
SecurityFocus: 13729 - Multiple Vendor DNS Message Decompression Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 15472 - Cisco Various Products Compressed DNS Messages Denial of Service, Less Critical
OSVDB: 25291
Vulnerability Center: 8301 - [cisco-sn-20050524-dns] DoS in Multiple Cisco DNS Client Devices via Malformed DNS Packet, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 06/07/2005 12:31
Updated: 03/11/2021 13:39
Changes: 06/07/2005 12:31 (65), 11/17/2016 10:50 (5), 03/11/2021 13:39 (8)
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Cache ID: 216:33E:103

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