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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series USB Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20151204-nexus)

🗓️ 12 May 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbHType 
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A vulnerability in the USB driver for Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due to a kernel cras

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# Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH
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# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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CPE = "cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105696");
  script_version("2022-12-26T10:12:01+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-12-26 10:12:01 +0000 (Mon, 26 Dec 2022)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-05-12 16:00:56 +0200 (Thu, 12 May 2016)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.9");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-6394");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Cisco Nexus 5000 Series USB Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20151204-nexus)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
  script_family("CISCO");
  script_dependencies("gb_cisco_nx_os_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("cisco/nx_os/detected", "cisco/nx_os/device", "cisco/nx_os/model");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in the USB driver for Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
  Switches could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS)
  condition due to a kernel crash.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The vulnerability is due to insufficient handling of USB input
  parameters. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted USB parameters to be
  processed by the kernel of an affected device.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS
  condition on the affected device.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151204-nexus");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if( ! device = get_kb_item( "cisco/nx_os/device" ) )
  exit( 0 );

if( "Nexus" >!< device )
  exit( 0 );

if ( ! nx_model = get_kb_item( "cisco/nx_os/model" ) )
  exit( 0 );

if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe:CPE, nofork:TRUE ) )
  exit( 0 );

if( nx_model =~ "^C?5[0-9]+" ) {
  affected = make_list( "5.2(9)N1(1)" );
}

foreach af ( affected ) {
  if( version == af ) {
    report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"See advisory" );
    security_message( port:0, data:report );
    exit( 0 );
  }
}

exit( 99 );

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26 Dec 2022 00:00Current
6.4Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.4
CVSS 24.9
EPSS0.00336
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