Denial of service in Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker and Palo Alto PAN-OS - CVE-2014-9708

 

Denial of service in Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker and Palo Alto PAN-OS - CVE-2014-9708

Published: October 13, 2016 / Updated: January 3, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU945
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-2014-9708
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to cause DoS conditions on the target system.
The weakness exists due to null pointer dereference. By sending a specially crafted HTTP Range Header value, attackers can trigger the web service crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability leads to denial of service on the vulerable system.

Affected software

Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker
Palo Alto PAN-OS

How to mitigate CVE-2014-9708

Update to version 5.1.13 or later.


External References

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