Remote code execution in Cisco Meeting Server - CVE-2016-6448

 

Remote code execution in Cisco Meeting Server - CVE-2016-6448

Published: November 2, 2016 / Updated: April 5, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU1139
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6448
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco Meeting Server

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the target system
The weakness is due to improper input validation. By sending a specially crafted Session Description Protocol (SDP) packets, a remote attacker can cayse a buffer overflow in the processing of media lines in the SDP parser and execute arbitrary code.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-6448

Update to version 2.0.3.

Sources