Cisco IOS 12.4/15.0/15.1 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Cisco IOS 12.4/15.0/15.1. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2011-0944. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco IOS 12.4/15.0/15.1 (Router Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. 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 12.4, 15.0, and 15.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via malformed IPv6 packets, aka Bug ID CSCtj41194.

The weakness was disclosed 10/03/2011 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is available at cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-0944 since 02/10/2011. 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 structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/21/2021).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 56316 (Cisco IOS Software IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20110928-ipv6)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 43213 (Cisco IOS Software IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20110928-ipv6)).

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 Tenable (56316), SecurityFocus (BID 49821†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-33369†). The entries VDB-58806, VDB-58804 and VDB-58803 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 56316
Nessus Name: Cisco IOS Software IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20110928-ipv6)
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02/10/2011 🔍
09/28/2011 +230 days 🔍
09/28/2011 +0 days 🔍
09/29/2011 +1 days 🔍
10/02/2011 +3 days 🔍
10/03/2011 +1 days 🔍
10/03/2011 +0 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +1267 days 🔍
11/21/2021 +2435 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-0944 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-0944
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-58802
SecurityFocus: 49821 - Cisco IOS IPv6 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerablity
Vulnerability Center: 33369 - [cisco-sa-20110928-ipv6] Cisco IOS IPv6 Implementation Remote DoS Vulnerability, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/21/2021 01:07
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (56), 04/02/2017 14:11 (11), 11/21/2021 01:07 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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