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Cisco Wireless LAN Controller 802.11i Management Frame DoS

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

CISCO

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.1

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

8 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

Cisco Wireless LAN Controller contains a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service condition.

Insight

Insight

The vulnerability is due to a failure to properly discard certain malformed values in an 802.11i management frame received from a wireless client. An attacker could trigger the vulnerability by submitting a crafted frame to an access point managed by the affected Cisco WLC.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Cisco WLC Software releases 7.4(1.19), 7.3(101.0), and 7.0(240.0) are vulnerable.

Detection Method

Detection Method

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

Solution

Solution

Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.

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