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Cisco Multiple Products Wireless ARP Requests Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA26161
Release Date: 2007-07-25
Last Update: 2007-07-27
Popularity: 16,217 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Partial Fix

OS:Cisco 4400 Series Wireless LAN Controller
Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Integrated Wireless LAN Controllers

Software:Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Wireless Service Module (WiSM)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in multiple Cisco products, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) Certain Cisco Wireless Lan Controllers (WLCs) do not correctly handle unicast ARP requests from MAC addresses that are unknown to the Layer-2 infrastructure, causing a second WLC to incorrectly re-forward the ARP request back into the network.

Successful exploitation allows to cause a DoS due to heavy network traffic, but requires that two WLCs are attached to the same set of Layer-2 VLANs and each have a context for the wireless client, e.g. if a guest WLAN (auto-anchor) is used or after a Layer-3 (cross-subnet) roam.

2) Broadcast ARP packets for the IP address of a known client context are not correctly handled and re-forwarded into the network.

Successful exploitation allows to cause a DoS due to heavy network traffic, but requires that more than 1 WLC is installed for the corresponding network and that the arpunicast feature is enabled.

Note: This affects version 4.1 only.

3) In certain Layer-3 (L3) roaming scenarios (e.g. when wireless clients move from one controller to another and the wireless LAN interfaces are configured on different controllers which are on different IP subnets), a foreign controller may send a unicast ARP request out to a local VLAN.

The vulnerabilities are reported in software versions 4.1, 4.0, 3.2, and prior in for the following products:
* Cisco 4100 Series Wireless LAN Controllers
* Cisco 4400 Series Wireless LAN Controllers
* Cisco Airespace 4000 Series Wireless LAN Controller
* Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Wireless Services Module (WiSM)
* Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Integrated Wireless LAN Controllers

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