PT-2016-4738 · Cisco · Cisco Asa

Published 2016-05-05 · Updated 2016-12-01 · CVE-2016-1369

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services versions 5.3.1 through 6.0.0

Description The issue is related to the misconfiguration of kernel logging in the Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5585-X FirePOWER Security Services Processor (SSP) module. This misconfiguration allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming resources and potentially causing an inspection outage or module outage via a flood of crafted IP traffic.

Recommendations For versions 5.3.1 through 6.0.0, update to a version that properly configures kernel logging to prevent the denial of service.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-1369

Affected Products

Cisco Asa

References · 4

• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160504-fpkern · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1369 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1369 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1035743 · Note