Cisco CatOS CiscoView HTTP Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:5976

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Cisco CatOS CiscoView HTTP Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5976
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2002-1222
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 16 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 06:06PM
Credit: Vulnerability announced in a Cisco Security Advisory.
Vulnerable: Cisco CatOS 7.4
Cisco CatOS 7.3
Cisco CatOS 6.1 (2)
Cisco CatOS 6.1
Cisco CatOS 5.5 (13a)
Cisco CatOS 5.5
Cisco CatOS 5.4
Not Vulnerable: Cisco CatOS 7.4 (1)
Cisco CatOS 7.4 (0.63)
Cisco CatOS 6.3 (9)
Cisco CatOS 6.3 (8.3)

Discussion

Cisco CatOS CiscoView HTTP Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Certain versions of Cisco CatOS ship with an embedded HTTP server. Switches that run these versions of CatOS are prone to a denial of service, which is due to a remote buffer overflow condition in the HTTP server.

This issue is reported to affect CatOS versions 5.4 through 7.4 which contain "cv" in the image name.

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