# CVE-2006-0354: Denial of service in n/a

> Authenticated remote attackers can cause denial of service on Cisco IOS wireless access points by exhausting memory with spoofed ARP packets.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Jan 2006
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jccp-q6rh-8v47

## What is CVE-2006-0354?

CVE-2006-0354 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Jan 2006. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Cisco IOS before 12.3-7-JA2 on Aironet Wireless Access Points (WAP) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (termination of packet passing or termination of client connections) by sending the management interface a large number of spoofed ARP packets, which creates a large ARP table that exhausts memory, aka Bug ID CSCsc16644.

Weakness: CWE-399

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-0354?

It affects 8 products.


Products: Cisco Aironet Ap1100, Cisco Aironet Ap1130ag, Cisco Aironet Ap1200, Cisco Aironet Ap1230ag, Cisco Aironet Ap1240ag, Cisco Aironet Ap1300, Cisco Aironet Ap1400, Cisco Aironet Ap350.

## How do I fix CVE-2006-0354?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-0354 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2006-0354 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-0354 exists.

Public exploit code:

- Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Points - Memory Exhaustion ARP (Denial of Service) (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2009-2976](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2976/): Information disclosure in n/a (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2009-2861](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2861/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2006-0354 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2006-0354 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Jan 2006. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-0354 exists.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-0354/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-0354/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0354
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0354
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-0354

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