CVE-2016-1436: cisco asr_5000_software

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-1436 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in cisco asr_5000_software. EPSS estimates a 1.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 23-06-2016
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The General Packet Radio Switching Tunneling Protocol 1 (aka GTPv1) implementation on Cisco ASR 5000 Packet Data Network Gateway devices before 19.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Session Manager process restart) via a crafted GTPv1 packet, aka Bug ID CSCuz46198.

• 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.