Vigil@nce - Cisco Wireless LAN Controller: denial of service via wireless frame management
September 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An unauthenticated attacker can send a malicious wireless frame
management packet to Cisco Wireless LAN Controller, in order to
trigger a denial of service.
– Impacted products: Cisco Wireless Controller.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Creation date: 28/07/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Cisco Wireless LAN Controller product has a service to manage
received wireless frame management packets.
However, when a malicious packet is received, a fatal error occurs.
An unauthenticated attacker can therefore send a malicious
wireless frame management packet to Cisco Wireless LAN Controller,
in order to trigger a denial of service.
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