Cisco ASR 5000 Series ipsecmgr Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
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cisco-sa-20161116-asr
Final
1.0
1.0
2016-11-15T19:10:32
Initial public release.
2016-11-16T16:00:00
2016-11-16T16:00:00
TVCE
A vulnerability in the IPsec component of StarOS for Cisco ASR 5000 Series routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to terminate all active IPsec VPN tunnels and prevent new tunnels from establishing, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
The vulnerability is due to improper processing of Internet Key Exchange (IKE) messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted IKE messages toward the router. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of the ipsecmgr service. A reload of the ipsecmgr service might result in all IPsec VPN tunnels being terminated and new tunnels being unable to establish until the service has restarted, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
This advisory is available at the following link:
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161116-asr["https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161116-asr"]
This vulnerability affects the following Cisco products:
Cisco ASR 5000/5500 Series routers
Cisco Virtualized Packet Core (VPC)
For information about affected software releases, consult the Cisco bug ID at the top of this advisory.
No other Cisco products are currently known to be affected by this vulnerability.
There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
For information about fixed software releases, consult the Cisco bug ID(s) at the top of this advisory.
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https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161116-asr
Cisco ASR 5000 Series ipsecmgr Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
Cisco ASR 5000 Series Software
Cisco Virtualized Packet Core
Cisco ASR 5000 Series IPSECMGR Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
CSCva13631
CSCva13631
Complete.
CVE-2016-6466
CVRFPID-193199
CVRFPID-217771
5.0
4.1
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:F/RL:OF/RC:C
There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161116-asr
Cisco ASR 5000 Series ipsecmgr Service Denial of Service Vulnerability