CVE-2016-1459 Denial of service in n/a
Remote authenticated users can cause a denial of service via crafted BGP messages, requiring network administrators to apply vendor patches.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-1459?
CVE-2016-1459 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Ios, published on 17 Jul 2016. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Cisco IOS 12.4 and 15.0 through 15.5 and IOS XE 3.13 through 3.17 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (device reload) via crafted attributes in a BGP message, aka Bug ID CSCuz21061.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1459?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Cisco Ios, Cisco Ios Xe.
How do I fix CVE-2016-1459?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-1459 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-2016-1459 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1459 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Ios
- CVE-2017-12240 Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software DHCP Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2017-3881 Cisco IOS and IOS XE Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2018-0167 Cisco IOS, XR, and XE Software Buffer Overflow
- CVE-2017-6736 Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software SNMP Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2017-6737 Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software SNMP Remote Code Execution
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hg4w-xx6x-hv4q.