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Cisco ASA: CVE-2018-15383: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Direct Memory Access Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Cisco ASA: CVE-2018-15383: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Direct Memory Access Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/04/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/04/2018
Modified
03/03/2023

Description

A vulnerability in the cryptographic hardware accelerator driver of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a temporary denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability exists because the affected devices have a limited amount of Direct Memory Access (DMA) memory and the affected software improperly handles resources in low-memory conditions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a sustained, high rate of malicious traffic to an affected device to exhaust memory on the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust DMA memory on the affected device, which could cause the device to reload and result in a temporary DoS condition.

Solution(s)

  • cisco-asa-update-latest

References

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