Denial of service in Small Business SPA51x - CVE-2017-12259

 

Denial of service in Small Business SPA51x - CVE-2017-12259

Published: October 19, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8891
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12259
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Small Business SPA51x

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition.

The weakness exists in the implementation of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) functionality in Cisco Small Business SPA51x Series IP Phones due to improper handling of SIP request messages. A remote attacker can send malformed SIP messages and the device to become unresponsive.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-12259

Update to version 7.6(2)SR2.

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