SB2016102717 - Denial of service in Cisco Email Security Appliance



SB2016102717 - Denial of service in Cisco Email Security Appliance

Published: October 27, 2016 Updated: April 5, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2016102717
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6358)

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to cause DoS conditions on the target system.
The weakness is due to input validation flaw. By connecting to the FTP service and sending a specially crafted parameters, a remote attacker can trigger the target FTP service to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service on the vulnerable system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.