CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2016-6385 — Cisco Ios security vulnerability
High
CVSS 7.8
Memory leak in the Smart Install client implementation in Cisco IOS 12.2 and 15.0 through 15.2 and IOS XE 3.2 through 3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted image-list parameters, aka Bug ID CSCuy82367.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (2.0)
- Published
- 2016-10-05
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Affected products
- cisco / ios / 12.2(35)ex
- cisco / ios / 12.2(35)ex1
- cisco / ios / 12.2(35)ex2
- cisco / ios / 12.2(35)se
- cisco / ios / 12.2(35)se1
- cisco / ios / 12.2(35)se2
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Matched remediation archetype
Resource exhaustion and denial of service
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Check exposure
- Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
- Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
- Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.
Remediate safely
- Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
- Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
- Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.
Authoritative sources
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