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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2016-9203

High
7.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) feature of Cisco ASR 5000 Series Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the ipsecmgr process. More Information: CSCvb38398. Known Affected Releases: 20.2.3 20.2.3.65026. Known Fixed Releases: 21.1.M0.65431 21.1.PP0.65733 21.1.R0.65467 21.1.R0.65496 21.1.VC0.65434 21.1.VC0.65489 21.2.A0.65437.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

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