Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and Telnet Sessions Buffer Overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 48988

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

The Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions feature in specific versions of Cisco IOS software is vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow condition.
Devices that do not support, or are not configured for Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Services are not affected.
Devices configured with only Authentication Proxy for HTTP and/or HTTPS are not affected.
Only devices running certain versions of Cisco IOS are affected.
Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability.
There are workarounds available to mitigate the effects of the vulnerability.

Solution

Apply the relevant patch referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20050907-auth_proxy.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9e45a1e2

http://www.nessus.org/u?26a3c38c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 48988

File Name: cisco-sa-20050907-auth.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 9/1/2010

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/7/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2841

BID: 14770

CERT: 236045

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20050907-auth_proxy

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCsa54608