PT-2003-2085 · Cisco · Cisco Content Service Switch

Allen D Householder · Published 2003-12-31 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2003-1132

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Content Service Switch (CSS) versions 11000 and 11500

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by forcing other DNS servers to send and cache a request for a nonexistent AAAA record to the vulnerable server, resulting in an inaccessible domain. This occurs because the DNS server responds with response code 3 (NXDOMAIN or "Name Error") instead of response code 0 ("No Error") when prompted for a nonexistent AAAA record.

Recommendations For Cisco Content Service Switch (CSS) versions 11000 and 11500, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-1132

Affected Products

Cisco Content Service Switch

References · 3

• http://cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20030430-dns.shtml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-1132 · Security Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/714121 · Note