CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-6656 — Cisco Ip Phone 8800 Series security vulnerability
A vulnerability in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) call handling of Cisco IP Phone 8800 Series devices could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due to the SIP process unexpectedly restarting. All active phone calls are dropped as the SIP process restarts. More Information: CSCvc29353. Known Affected Releases: 11.0(0.1). Known Fixed Releases: 11.0(0)MP2.153 11.0(0)MP2.62.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.9 (3.0)
- Published
- 2017-06-13
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
- cisco / ip_phone_8800_series / 11.0(0.1)
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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