McAfee Firewall Enterprise DoS (SB10126)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85402

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The remote host has a version of McAfee Firewall Enterprise installed that is affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to an assertion flaw that occurs when handling TKEY queries. A remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted request, to cause a REQUIRE assertion failure and daemon exit, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Solution

Apply the appropriate patch referenced in the vendor security advisory.

See Also

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10126

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85402

File Name: mcafee_firewall_enterprise_SB10126.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Family: Firewalls

Published: 8/14/2015

Updated: 4/9/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5477

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: x-cpe:/a:mcafee:firewall_enterprise, cpe:/a:isc:bind

Required KB Items: Host/McAfeeFE/version, Host/McAfeeFE/version_display, Host/McAfeeFE/installed_patches

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2015

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5477

BID: 76092

IAVB: 2015-B-0099

MCAFEE-SB: SB10126