Buffer overflow in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) - CVE-2016-6432

 

Buffer overflow in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) - CVE-2016-6432

Published: October 19, 2016 / Updated: April 5, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU1048
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6432
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness is caused by improper checking of the input. By returning a specially crafted NetBIOS packet via IPv4 in response to a NetBIOS probe sent by the target system, attackers can trigger a buffer overflow that lets execute arbitrary code.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

Affected software

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
openEuler
ffmpeg
ffmpeg-debuginfo
ffmpeg-debugsource
ffmpeg-devel
ffmpeg-libs
libavdevice

How to mitigate CVE-2016-6432

Update to version 9.0(4.42), 9.1(7.11), 9.2(4.17), 9.3(3.11), 9.4(3.11), 9.5(3.1), 9.6(2.1).

ffmpeg - update to 4.2.4-14
ffmpeg-debuginfo - update to 4.2.4-14
ffmpeg-debugsource - update to 4.2.4-14
ffmpeg-devel - update to 4.2.4-14
ffmpeg-libs - update to 4.2.4-14
libavdevice - update to 4.2.4-14

External References

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