SB2016091603 - Denial of service in Polycom, Polycom HDX 7000 Series
Published: September 16, 2016
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016091603
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: N/A)
CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause a denial of service conditions on the target system.
The weakness exists due to resource error. Attackers can use a specially crafted XML document type definition (DTD) to cause recursive definition parsing in the XML parser ans cease web traffic handling.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability leads to denial of service on the vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.