Cisco IOS 12.0.x OSPF Neighbor Announcement denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco IOS 12.0.x and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component OSPF Neighbor Announcement Handler. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability was named CVE-2003-0100. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cisco IOS 12.0.x (Router Operating System). Affected is an unknown code of the component OSPF Neighbor Announcement Handler. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in Cisco IOS 11.2.x to 12.0.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute commands via a large number of OSPF neighbor announcements.

The weakness was presented 03/03/2003 with Phenoelit as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2003-0100. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 11283 (Cisco IOS OSPF Neighbor Announcement Remote Overflow (CSCdp58462)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO, running in the context l and relying on port 161.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (11373), Exploit-DB (22271), Tenable (11283), SecurityFocus (BID 6895†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-2809†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 11283
Nessus Name: Cisco IOS OSPF Neighbor Announcement Remote Overflow (CSCdp58462)
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02/20/2003 🔍
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10/29/2003 +240 days 🔍
08/07/2014 +3935 days 🔍
09/11/2024 +3688 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Organization: Phenoelit
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2003-0100 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2003-0100
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-20178

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X-Force: 11373
SecurityFocus: 6895 - Cisco IOS OSPF Neighbor Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 2809 - [cisco-sr-20030220-ospf] OSPF Buffer Overflow in Several Cisco IOS Versions, High

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

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Created: 08/07/2014 18:12
Updated: 09/11/2024 03:09
Changes: 08/07/2014 18:12 (72), 05/16/2019 16:47 (1), 09/11/2024 03:09 (19)
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