Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-7997 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Cisco IOS
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
The DHCP implementation in Cisco IOS on Aironet access points does not properly handle error conditions with short leases and unsuccessful lease-renewal attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device restart) by triggering a transition into a recovery state that was intended to involve a network-interface restart but actually involves a full device restart, aka Bug ID CSCtn16281.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-7997
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-7997
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031218
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031218
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98691
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98691