CVE-2013-1217: cisco ios

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-1217 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability in cisco ios. EPSS estimates a 1.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 24-04-2013
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The generic input/output control implementation in Cisco IOS does not properly manage buffers, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (device reload) by sending many SNMP requests at the same time, aka Bug ID CSCub41105.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.