SB2016102717 - Denial of service in Cisco Email Security Appliance
Published: October 27, 2016 Updated: April 5, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016102717
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6358)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to cause DoS conditions on the target system.The weakness is due to input validation flaw. By connecting to the FTP service and sending a specially crafted parameters, a remote attacker can trigger the target FTP service to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service on the vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.