Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-40114 - Memory Leak vulnerability in multiple products

CVSS 7.5 - HIGH

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

cisco

snort

CWE-401

NVD

Published: 2021-10-27

Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the way the Snort detection engine processes ICMP traffic that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper memory resource management while the Snort detection engine is processing ICMP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of ICMP packets through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust resources on the affected device, causing the device to reload.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 2.9.14.0 Cisco Firepower Management Center 2.9.15 Cisco Firepower Management Center 2.9.16 Cisco Firepower Management Center 2.9.17 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.7.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.7.0.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense - Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 5.3.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 5.4.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.0.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.1.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.1.2 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.1.3 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.1.4 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.1.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.1.0.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.1.0.2 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.1.0.3 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.1.0.4 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.1.0.5 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.1.0.6 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.1.0.7 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.0.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.0.2 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.0.3 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.0.4 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.0.5 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.0.6 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.2 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.2.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.2.2 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.2.3 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.2.4 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.2.5 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.2 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.3 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.4 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.5 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.6 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.7 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.8 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.9 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.10 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.11 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.12 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.13 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.14 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.15 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.16 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.17 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.2.3.18 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.3.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.3.0.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.3.0.2 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.3.0.3 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.3.0.4 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.3.0.5 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.3.0.6 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.2 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.3 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.4 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.5 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.6 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.7 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.8 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.9 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.10 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0.11 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.5.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.5.0.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.5.0.2 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.5.0.3 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.5.0.4 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.5.0.5 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.6.0 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.6.0.1 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.6.1 Cisco Unified Threat Defense 17.4 Cisco Unified Threat Defense 17.3 Cisco Unified Threat Defense 16.12	90
Application	Snort Snort Snort 2.6.1 Snort Snort 2.6.1.1 Snort Snort 2.6.1.2 Snort Snort 2.6.2 Snort Snort 2.7_Beta1 Snort Snort 2.9.11.1 Snort Snort 2.9.12.0 Snort Snort 2.9.13.0 Snort Snort 2.9.13.1 Snort Snort 2.9.14 Snort Snort 2.9.14.0 Snort Snort 2.9.14.1 Snort Snort 2.9.15 Snort Snort 2.9.15.1 Snort Snort 2.9.16 Snort Snort 2.9.16.1 Snort Snort 2.9.17 Snort Snort 2.9.17.1	18

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-401 - Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak')

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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