Cisco IP Phone 7900 VxWorks Debugger denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco IP Phone 7900 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component VxWorks Debugger. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability was named CVE-2005-3803. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cisco IP Phone 7900 (IP Phone Software). Affected is an unknown code of the component VxWorks Debugger. 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. CVE summarizes:

Cisco IP Phone (VoIP) 7920 1.0(8) contains certain hard-coded ("fixed") public and private SNMP community strings that cannot be changed, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

The weakness was presented 11/17/2005 by Shawn Merdinger with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2005-3803 since 11/24/2005. 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.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at cisco.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (23067), SecurityFocus (BID 15454†), OSVDB (20966†), Secunia (SA17604†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1015232†). See VDB-1907 and VDB-27077 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.2

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: cisco.com

Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Researcher: Shawn Merdinger
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2005-3803 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-3803
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-1908
X-Force: 23067 - Cisco IP Phone default SNMP community strings
SecurityFocus: 15454 - Cisco 7920 Wireless IP Phone Fixed SNMP Community String Vulnerability
Secunia: 17604 - Cisco Wireless IP Phone Two Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
OSVDB: 20966 - Cisco 7920 Wireless IP Phone Persistent Default SNMP Strings
SecurityTracker: 1015232

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Entryinfo

Created: 11/18/2005 11:48
Updated: 04/20/2018 09:28
Changes: 11/18/2005 11:48 (70), 04/20/2018 09:28 (10)
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Cache ID: 216:41D:103

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