Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-6359 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Cisco IOS
Attack vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS 15.3(3)S0.1 on ASR devices mishandles internal tables, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or device crash) via a flood of crafted ND messages, aka Bug ID CSCup28217.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 5 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
| NASL family | CISCO |
| NASL id | CISCO-SA-20151214-IOSXE.NASL |
| description | The remote Cisco IOS XE device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch, and is not configured to limit the IPv6 neighbor discovery (ND) cache. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to insufficient bounds on internal tables. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker can exploit this, via a continuous stream of ND messages, to exhaust available memory resources, resulting in a denial of service condition. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 87504 |
| published | 2015-12-18 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87504 |
| title | Cisco IOS XE Software IPv6 Neighbor Discovery DoS (CSCup28217) |