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Cisco Video Communication Server Session Initiation Protocol Packet Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

CISCO

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

A vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) implementation of the Cisco Video Communications Server (VCS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Insight

Insight

The vulnerability is due to a malformed SIP header message. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by manipulating the SIP URI. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a disruption of service to the application.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Cisco TelePresence VCS X8.x releases prior to X8.7.2 are vulnerable.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Update to version X8.7.2 or higher.

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