Cisco Service Control Engine (SCE) management agent denial of service

cisco-sce-managementagent-dos (42566) The risk level is classified as LowLow Risk

Description:

Cisco Service Control Engine (SCE) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an IO error in the management agent. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability via SSH login activity during the occurrence of other management tasks to crash the management agent service.

Platforms Affected:

  • Cisco, Service Control Engine 3.1.6
  • Icon-Labs, Iconfidant SSH 2.3.7

Remedy:

Refer to cisco-sa-20080521-sce for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.

Consequences:

Denial of Service

References:

  • cisco-sa-20080521-sce, Cisco Service Control Engine Denial of Service Vulnerabilities at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080521-sce.shtml .
  • BID-29316: Cisco Service Control Engine SSH Server Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
  • BID-29609: Icon Labs Iconfidant SSH Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2008-0536: Unspecified vulnerability in the SSH server in (1) Cisco Service Control Engine (SCE) 3.0.x before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.0, and (2) Icon Labs Iconfidant SSH before 2.3.8, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (management interface outage) via SSH traffic that occurs during management operations and triggers illegal I/O operations
  • FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1604: Cisco Service Control Engine Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
  • FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1774: Icon Labs Iconfidant SSH Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
  • SA30316: Cisco Service Control Engine SSH Server Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
  • SA30590: Iconfidant SSH Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
  • SECTRACK ID: 1020074: Cisco Service Control Engine SSH Server Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service
  • US-CERT VU#626979: Icon Labs SSH server vulnerabilities

Reported:

May 21, 2008

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