SB2017090717 - Denial of service in Cisco IoT Field Network Director
Published: September 7, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017090717
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6780)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the TCP throttling process due to insufficient rate-limiting protection. A remote attacker can send a high rate of TCP packets to a specific group of open listening ports, trigger memory exhaustion and cause the system to restart.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.