CVE-2016-6380
high
CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.1
Description
The DNS forwarder in Cisco IOS 12.0 through 12.4 and 15.0 through 15.6 and IOS XE 3.1 through 3.15 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (data corruption or device reload) via a crafted DNS response, aka Bug ID CSCup90532.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
88%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160928-dns
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93201
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036914
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-287-04
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160928-dns
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93201
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036914
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-287-04
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.