Cisco ASA 5500 and PIX 500 TCP connection denial of service
| cisco-asa-tcp-dos (56336) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Cisco ASA 5500 and PIX 500 are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a TCP connection exhaustion condition. By sending specific TCP segments during the TCP connection termination phase following the three-way handshake, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to caused a denial of service.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 7.1 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
| Temporal Score: | 5.9 |
| Exploitability: | Functional |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Refer to cisco-sa-20100217-asa for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.
References:
- cisco-sa-20100217-asa: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances.
- BID-38275: Cisco ASA Appliance TCP Connection Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2010-0149: Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance 7.2 before 7.2(4.46), 8.0 before 8.0(4.38), 8.1 before 8.1(2.29), and 8.2 before 8.2(1.5); and Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliance; allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections) via crafted TCP segments during termination of the TCP connection that cause the connection to remain in CLOSEWAIT status, aka TCP Connection Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability.
- OSVDB ID: 62433: Cisco Multiple Products Series TCP Connection Exhaustion Remote DoS
- SA38618: Cisco ASA 5500 Series Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA38636: Cisco PIX 500 Series Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1023612: Cisco ASA TCP, SIP, SCCP, DTLS, and IKE Processing Flaws Let Remote Users Deny Service
- VUPEN/ADV-2010-0415: Cisco ASA 5500 Authentication Bypass and Denial of Service Issues
Platforms Affected:
- Cisco ASA 5500 7.2
- Cisco ASA 5500 8.0
- Cisco ASA 5500 8.1
- Cisco ASA 5500 8.2
- Cisco PIX 500
Reported:
Feb 17, 2010
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