Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CVE-2013-1243
Summary
The IP stack in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Software in ASA 5500-X IPS-SSP software and hardware modules before 7.1(5)E4, IPS 4500 sensors before 7.1(6)E4, and IPS 4300 sensors before 7.1(5)E4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (MainApp process hang) via malformed IPv4 packets, aka Bug ID CSCtx18596.
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CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow
Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.
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Advisory Timeline
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