CVE-2011-2060 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can cause a denial of service on Cisco ASA devices by setting a crafted interface description with non-ASCII characters.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2011-2060?
CVE-2011-2060 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance, published on 22 Oct 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The platform-sw component on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.2 before 8.2(5.3), 8.3 before 8.3(2.20), and 8.4 before 8.4(2.1) does not properly handle non-ASCII characters in an interface description, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (reload without configuration) via a crafted description, aka Bug ID CSCtq50523.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-2060?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software.
How do I fix CVE-2011-2060?
No fix has been published for CVE-2011-2060 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2011-2060 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-2060 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance
- CVE-2012-0358 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2012-4661 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2010-4675 Auth bypass in n/a
- CVE-2010-4680 Security feature bypass in n/a
- CVE-2011-3298 Auth bypass in n/a
All Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance vulnerabilities
Sources
Also known as GHSA-98f6-wwrg-769f.