Cisco Aironet Wireless Access ARP resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cisco Aironet Wireless Access. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component ARP Handler. Such manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2006-0354. Additionally, an exploit exists. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Aironet Wireless Access (Wireless LAN Software) (affected version not known) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component ARP Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Cisco IOS before 12.3-7-JA2 on Aironet Wireless Access Points (WAP) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (termination of packet passing or termination of client connections) by sending the management interface a large number of spoofed ARP packets, which creates a large ARP table that exhausts memory, aka Bug ID CSCsc16644.

The weakness was released 01/13/2006 by Eric Smith with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-0354 since 01/22/2006. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 43103 (Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Point ARP Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at tools.cisco.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (24086), Exploit-DB (1447), SecurityFocus (BID 16217†), OSVDB (22375†) and Secunia (SA18430†). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Patch: tools.cisco.com

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Researcher: Eric Smith
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-0354 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-0354
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-1976

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X-Force: 24086 - Cisco Aironet ARP table memory exhaustion denial of service, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 16217 - Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Point ARP Memory Exhaustion Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 18430 - Cisco Access Point ARP Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service, Less Critical
OSVDB: 22375 - Cisco Aironet Access Point ARP Memory Exhaustion DoS
SecurityTracker: 1015483 - Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Point Memory Can Be Consumed With Spoofed ARP Packets
Vulnerability Center: 10159 - [cisco-sa-20060112-wireless] Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Points Remote DoS via ARP Messages, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-0176

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 01/18/2006 11:29
Updated: 06/23/2025 02:42
Changes: 01/18/2006 11:29 (81), 12/01/2016 12:21 (9), 01/01/2025 02:10 (21), 06/23/2025 02:42 (2)
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