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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106778
Category:CISCO
Title:Cisco Firepower Detection Engine Pragmatic General Multicast Protocol Decoding Denial of Service Vulnerability
Summary:A vulnerability in the detection engine parsing of Pragmatic General; Multicast (PGM) protocol packets for Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote; attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due to the Snort process unexpectedly restarting.
Description:Summary:
A vulnerability in the detection engine parsing of Pragmatic General
Multicast (PGM) protocol packets for Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote
attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due to the Snort process unexpectedly restarting.

Vulnerability Insight:
The vulnerability is due to improper input validation of the fields in the
PGM protocol packet. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted PGM packet to the
detection engine on the targeted device.

Vulnerability Impact:
An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition if the Snort
process restarts and traffic inspection is bypassed or traffic is dropped.

Solution:
See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6368
BugTraq ID: 97932
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97932
BugTraq ID: 98292
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98292
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