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Cisco IOS XR Software Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170405-ios)

🗓️ 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbHType 
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A vulnerability in Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service (DoS) by crashing the Event Management Service daemon (emsd) due to a system memory leak

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# Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH
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#
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#
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# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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#
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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CPE = "cpe:/o:cisco:ios_xr";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106722");
  script_version("2022-09-23T10:10:45+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-09-23 10:10:45 +0000 (Fri, 23 Sep 2022)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-04-07 10:30:46 +0200 (Fri, 07 Apr 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-6599");

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

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

  script_name("Cisco IOS XR Software Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170405-ios)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
  script_family("CISCO");
  script_dependencies("gb_cisco_ios_xr_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("cisco/ios_xr/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in Google-defined remote procedure call (gRPC)
  handling in Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the
  Event Management Service daemon (emsd) to crash due to a system memory leak, resulting in a
  denial of service (DoS) condition.");

  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 improper handling of gRPC requests.
  An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed gRPC requests repeatedly to the
  affected device.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the emsd process to
  crash.");

  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-20170405-ios");

  exit(0);
}

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

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

affected = make_list(
  '6.1.1',
  '6.2.1' );

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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23 Sep 2022 00:00Current
5.4Medium risk
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