Cisco ASA 5500 6.6.1164.0 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Cisco ASA 5500. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2010-0569. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco ASA 5500 (Firewall Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. 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:

Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance 7.0 before 7.0(8.10), 7.2 before 7.2(4.45), 8.0 before 8.0(5.2), 8.1 before 8.1(2.37), and 8.2 before 8.2(1.16); and Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliance; allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via malformed SIP messages, aka Bug ID CSCtc96018.

The weakness was presented 02/17/2010 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-0569 since 02/10/2010. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 7.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (56337), SecurityFocus (BID 38281†), OSVDB (62435†), Secunia (SA38618†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1023612†). See VDB-51907, VDB-51906, VDB-51905 and VDB-51904 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: ASA 5500 7.0
Suricata ID: 2010817
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2010-0569 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-0569
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-51908
X-Force: 56337
SecurityFocus: 38281 - Cisco ASA 5500 Series SIP Traffic (CVE-2010-0569) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 38618 - Cisco ASA 5500 Series Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 62435 - Cisco Multiple Products SIP Message Processing Unspecified Remote DoS (2010-0569)
SecurityTracker: 1023612 - Cisco ASA TCP, SIP, SCCP, DTLS, and IKE Processing Flaws Let Remote Users Deny Service
Vulnerability Center: 24913 - [cisco-sa-20100217-asa] Cisco ASA 5500 SIP Inspection Remote DoS Vulnerability (Bug CSCtc96018), High
Vupen: ADV-2010-0415

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 05/01/2026 02:16
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (59), 02/21/2017 17:15 (18), 05/01/2026 02:16 (18)
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