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Cisco PIX and ASA Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA24160
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Release Date:
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2007-02-15
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Last Update:
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2007-02-19
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Popularity:
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10,161 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 7.x
Cisco PIX 7.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-0959
CVE-2007-0960
CVE-2007-0961
CVE-2007-0962
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Cisco PIX and ASA, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An unspecified error exists within the enhanced HTTP inspection feature. This can be exploited to crash the device via malformed HTTP requests, but requires that enhanced HTTP inspection is enabled.
2) An unspecified error exists within the SIP packet inspection. This can be exploited to crash the device by sending specially crafted SIP packets, but requires that "inspect" is enabled (it is disabled by default).
3) An unspecified error exists within the TCP-based protocol inspection. This can be exploited to crash the device via malformed packets, but requires that inspection of TCP-based protocols (e.g. FTP or HTTP) is enabled.
4) An unspecified error within the "LOCAL" authentication method can be exploited to gain escalated privileges. Successful exploitation allows gaining privilege level 15 and changing the complete configuration of the device, but requires that the attacker can authenticate to the device and that he is defined in the local database with privilege level 0.
Solution:
Apply updated versions. See the vendor advisory for a patch matrix.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2007-02-16: Added CVE reference.
2007-02-19: Added link to US-CERT.
Original Advisory:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070214-pix.shtml
Other References:
US-CERT VU#430969:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/430969
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