Cisco IOS XE Software Session Initiation Protocol Denial of Service (cisco-sa-20140326-sip)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73346

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the version of Cisco IOS XE running on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) implementation.
An unauthenticated, remote attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service.

Note that this issue only affects hosts configured to process SIP messages. SIP is not enabled by default on newer IOS XE versions.

Solution

Apply the relevant patch referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20140326-sip.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73346

File Name: cisco-sa-20140326-sip-iosxe.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 4/4/2014

Updated: 5/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios_xe

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS-XE/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2106

BID: 66465

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20140326-sip

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCug45898

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