Denial of service in F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management zlib library



Risk Low
Patch available NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2016-9840
CWE-ID CWE-125
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
Server applications / Remote management servers, RDP, SSH

Vendor F5 Networks

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one low risk vulnerability.

1) Denial of service

EUVDB-ID: #VU6663

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 1.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9840

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in zlib due to out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted document, trick the victim into opening it, and cause the application to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

BIG-IQ Centralized Management: 8.2.0 - 8.3.0

CPE2.3 External links

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000149905


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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