Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform up to 4.1(0) denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform up to 4.1(0). This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2004-1434. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform up to 4.1(0) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple versions of Cisco ONS 15327, ONS 15454, and ONS 15454 SDH, including 4.1(0) to 4.1(2), 4.5(x), 4.0(0) to 4.0(2), and earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (control card reset) via malformed SNMP packets.

The bug was discovered 07/21/2004. The weakness was published 12/31/2004 with Cisco as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is available at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-1434 since 02/13/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 16201 (Cisco ONS Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (20040721-ons)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (16765), Tenable (16201), SecurityFocus (BID 10768†), OSVDB (8154†) and Secunia (SA12117†). Similar entries are available at VDB-768, VDB-22729, VDB-22731 and VDB-22732. 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: 16201
Nessus Name: Cisco ONS Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (20040721-ons)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-1434 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1434
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22730
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X-Force: 16765
SecurityFocus: 10768 - Cisco ONS Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 12117
OSVDB: 8154 - CVE-2004-1434 - Cisco - ONS - Denial-Of-Service Issue
Vulnerability Center: 6897 - [cisco-sa-20040721-ons] DoS in Cisco ONS Platforms via Wrong Handling of Malformed Packets, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 02/27/2015 15:50
Updated: 01/22/2025 15:27
Changes: 02/27/2015 15:50 (65), 05/29/2019 14:47 (7), 01/22/2025 15:27 (17)
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