Denial of service in Cisco Systems, Inc products - CVE-2016-6409

 

Denial of service in Cisco Systems, Inc products - CVE-2016-6409

Published: September 22, 2016 / Updated: April 5, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU629
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6409
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco IOS
Cisco IOS XR
Cisco IOS XE

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause denial of service on the target system.
The weakness is caused by improper bounds validation. By sending specially crafted data attackers can cause a boundary error in the Cisco Data in Motion (DMo) component that leads to denial of service conditions on the target DMo process.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service on the vulnerable service.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-6409

Install update from vendor's website.

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