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Vigil@nce - Cisco Wireless LAN Controller: denial of service via IPv6
August 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can send a malicious IPv6 packet to Cisco Wireless LAN
Controller, in order to trigger a denial of service.
Impacted products: Cisco Wireless Controller.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 24/06/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Cisco Wireless LAN Controller product has a service to manage
received IPv6 packets.
However, when a malicious packet is received, a fatal error occurs.
An attacker can therefore send a malicious IPv6 packet to Cisco
Wireless LAN Controller, in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Cisco-Wireless-LAN-Controller-denial-of-service-via-IPv6-17219
