Resource exhaustion in Videoscape Distribution Suite for Television - CVE-2017-6745
Published: August 3, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7670
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-2017-6745
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Videoscape Distribution Suite for Television
Videoscape Distribution Suite for Television
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the cache server within Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite (VDS) for Television due to excessive mapped connections exhausting the allotted resources within the system. A remote attacker can send large amounts of inbound traffic, trigger resources exhaustion and cause the system to reload.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists in the cache server within Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite (VDS) for Television due to excessive mapped connections exhausting the allotted resources within the system. A remote attacker can send large amounts of inbound traffic, trigger resources exhaustion and cause the system to reload.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-6745
The vulnerability is addressed in the following versions: cde-04.7(0.1), cde-04.6(1.2), cde-04.5(101.5), cde-04.5(0.85), cde-04.3(101.13), cde-04.3(101.10), ccdss-04.7(0.1), ccdss-04.6(1.2), ccdss-04.5(101.5), ccdss-04.5(0.85), ccdss-04.3(101.13), ccdss-04.3(101.10), ccdms-04.7(0.1), ccdms-04.6(1.2), ccdms-04.5(101.5), ccdms-04.5(0.85), ccdms-04.3(101.13), ccdms-04.3(101.10).