CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-20202

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Published: Sep 27, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability in the Wireless Network Control daemon (wncd) of Cisco IOS XE Software for Wireless LAN Controllers could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper memory management. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of network requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the wncd process to consume available memory and eventually cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

Weakness

The product allocates memory based on an untrusted, large size value, but it does not ensure that the size is within expected limits, allowing arbitrary amounts of memory to be allocated.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.1 (including) 17.9.1 (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.1a (including) 17.9.1a (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.1w (including) 17.9.1w (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.1x (including) 17.9.1x (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.1x1 (including) 17.9.1x1 (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.1y (including) 17.9.1y (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.2 (including) 17.9.2 (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.2a (including) 17.9.2a (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.2b (including) 17.9.2b (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.10.1 (including) 17.10.1 (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.10.1a (including) 17.10.1a (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.10.1b (including) 17.10.1b (including)

Potential Mitigations

References