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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2014-3261

High
7.6/10

Summary

Buffer overflow in the Smart Call Home implementation in Cisco NX-OS on Fabric Interconnects in Cisco Unified Computing System 1.4 before 1.4(1i), NX-OS 5.0 before 5.0(3)U2(2) on Nexus 3000 devices, NX-OS 4.1 before 4.1(2)E1(1l) on Nexus 4000 devices, NX-OS 5.x before 5.1(3)N1(1) on Nexus 5000 devices, NX-OS 5.2 before 5.2(3a) on Nexus 7000 devices, and CG-OS CG4 before CG4(2) on Connected 1000 Connected Grid Routers allows remote SMTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted reply, aka Bug IDs CSCtk00695, CSCts56633, CSCts56632, CSCts56628, CSCug14405, and CSCuf61322.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

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

  • Published