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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2014.2168
Cisco IOS DLSw Information Disclosure Vulnerability
19 November 2014
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Cisco IOS
Publisher: Cisco Systems
Operating System: Cisco
Impact/Access: Access Confidential Data -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2014-7992
Original Bulletin:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-7992
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Cisco Security Notice
Cisco IOS DLSw Information Disclosure Vulnerability
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-7992
CVE ID: CVE-2014-7992
Release Date: 2014 November 17 17:58 UTC (GMT)
Last Updated: 2014 November 18 19:13 UTC (GMT)
Summary
A vulnerability in the DLSw feature of Cisco IOS could allow an
unauthenticated, remote attacker to extract information from previously
processed packets.
The vulnerability is due to the lack of initialization of packet buffers. An
attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to the DLSw port
(TCP/2067). An exploit could allow the attacker to extract potentially
sensitive information, including clear-text passwords and SNMP community
strings from previously processed packets.
This vulnerability was reported to Cisco by Tate Hansen and John McLeod of
FishNet Security, and Kyle Rainey.
Affected Products
Product More Information CVSS
IOS CSCur14014 5.0/4.1
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