Cisco Aironet AP 1100 Malformed HTTP Request Crash Vulnerability

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    VIGILANTe Security Watch Advisory
    
    Name: Cisco Aironet AP 1100 Malformed HTTP Request Crash Vulnerability
    Systems Affected: Tested on a Cisco Aironet AP1100 Model 1120B Series 
    Wireless device.
    Firmware version 12.2(4)JA and earlier.
    Severity: High Risk
    Vendor URL: http://www.vigilante.com
    Authors: Reda Zitouni (reda.zitouniat_private)
    Date: 28th July 2003
    Advisory Code: VIGILANTE-2003001
    
    Description
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    Cisco Aironet 1100 Series Access Point is a device manufactured by Cisco 
    Systems offering a WLAN solution based on the 802.11b Wifi standard.
    The Arionet Bridge is vulnerable to a denial of service.This can be 
    exploited remotely by an attacker. No user login or password is necessary.
    
    Details
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    It is possible to cause Cisco Aironet Access Point to crash and reboot if 
    the HTTP server feature is enabled. This can be accomplished by 
    submitting a specially crafted request to the web server. There is no 
    need to authenticate to perform this attack, only access to the web 
    server is required. The Aironet bridge reboots upon receiving the request 
    and failing to handle correctly this one. Afterwards, no further access 
    to the WLAN or its services is possible.
    
    Vendor status:
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    Cisco was contacted June 19, 2003 and answered the same day. 5 days 
    later, they told us that they would release a patch soon. The patch was 
    finally released July 3, 2003.
    
    Vulnerability Assessment:
    A test case to detect this vulnerability was added to SecureScan NX in 
    the upgrade package of July 28, 2003. You can see the documentation of 
    this test case 17655 on SecureScan NX web site at 
    http://securescannx.vigilante.com/tc/17655 . 
    Fix:  A firmware upgrading the Aironet IOS version to c1100-k9w7 has been 
    released by Cisco. Please note that this version fixes some other bugs as 
    TC 15438 (refer to release note).
    
    Workaround:
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    1. If not needed - disable access to the web feature on the Aironet 
    Bridge. 
    2. If needed - restrict access to the HTTP service for outside 
    connections.
    CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures group ( reachable at 
    http://cve.mitre.org/ ) was contacted and assigned CAN-2003-0511 to this 
    vulnerability. 
    
    Links:
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    Cisco Advisory:	        http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-
    20030728-ap1x00.shtml
    Vigilante Advisory: 
    	http://www.vigilante.com/inetsecurity/advisories/VIGILANTE-
    2003001.htm
    Product Homepage: 	http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ps4570
    CVE: CAN-2003-0511 	http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-
    CAN-2003-0511
    
    
    Credit:
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    This vulnerability was discovered by Reda Zitouni, member of our Security 
    Watch Team at VIGILANTe. 
    We wish to thank Cisco PSIRT Team for their fast answer to fix this 
    problem. 
    
    Copyright VIGILANTe.com, Inc. 2003-07-28
    
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