Memory leak in Cisco IOS XE - CVE-2018-0158

 

Memory leak in Cisco IOS XE - CVE-2018-0158

Published: March 30, 2018 / Updated: March 8, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11356
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0158
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

Vulnerability details

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

The weakness exists in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) module due to incorrect processing of certain IKEv2 packets. A remote attacker can send specially crafted IKEv2 packets, trigger memory leak and cause the service to crash.

Affected software

Cisco IOS XE

Allen-Bradley Stratix 5900 Services Router
Allen-Bradley Stratix 5400 Industrial Ethernet Switches
Allen-Bradley Stratix 5410 Industrial Distribution Switches
Allen-Bradley Stratix 5700 Industrial Managed Ethernet Switches
Allen-Bradley ArmorStratix 5700 Industrial Managed Ethernet Switches
Allen-Bradley Stratix 8000 Modular Managed Ethernet Switches

How to mitigate CVE-2018-0158

Update to versions 16.4(2.68), 16.3.5b, 16.3.5, 16.3(4.67), 15.7(3.1.14A)OT, 15.7(3.1.5U)OT, 15.7(3)M1, 15.7(3)M, 15.7(2.0v)M0.2, 15.7(2.0y)M, 15.6(3)M3, 15.6(2.18)S2.23, 15.6(2)T3, 15.6(2)SP3, 15.6(2)S4, 15.6(1.41)SP2, 15.5(3)S6a, 15.5(3)S6, 15.5(3)S5.31, 15.5(3)M6, 15.5(1.0.93)SY1, 15.5(1.0.91)SY1, 15.5(1)SY1, 15.5(1)IA1.428, 15.4(1.1.13)SY3, 15.4(1)SY3, 15.2(6.5.1i)E1, 15.2(6.4.66i)E1, 15.2(6.3.0i)E, 15.2(6.2.20i)E, 15.2(6)E1, 15.2(4.6.22)EA5, 15.2(4)EA6 or 15.2(4)E5.


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