SB2024032823 - Denial of service in Cisco Aironet Access Point Software
Published: March 28, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-20354)
CWE-ID: CWE-460 - Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incomplete cleanup of resources when dropping certain malformed frames. A remote attacker on the local network can cause degradation of service to other clients and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.