CVE-2014-3358 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.8 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause denial of service on Cisco IOS devices by sending malformed mDNS packets, leading to memory exhaustion or device reload.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2014-3358?

CVE-2014-3358 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Ios, published on 25 Sep 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in Cisco IOS 15.0, 15.1, 15.2, and 15.4 and IOS XE 3.3.xSE before 3.3.2SE, 3.3.xXO before 3.3.1XO, 3.5.xE before 3.5.2E, and 3.11.xS before 3.11.1S allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, and interface queue wedge or device reload) via malformed mDNS packets, aka Bug ID CSCuj58950.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3358?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Cisco Ios, Cisco Ios Xe.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3358?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-3358 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-2014-3358 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3358 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Cisco Ios vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-v932-7xc2-r47c.

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