CVE-2015-4290 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-4290?

CVE-2015-4290 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client, published on 29 Jul 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The kernel extension in Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 4.0(2049) on OS X allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors involving contiguous memory locations, aka Bug ID CSCut12255.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4290?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4290?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-4290 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-2015-4290 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4290 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client

• CVE-2020-3433 Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows DLL Hijacking Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2020-3153 Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows Uncontrolled Search Path Exploited Medium 6.5
• CVE-2012-3088 Security feature bypass in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2012-2493 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2011-2040 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.3

All Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2m5q-52fx-w72m.