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CVE-2015-6291 Details

Description

Cisco AsyncOS before 8.5.7-043, 9.x before 9.1.1-023, and 9.5.x and 9.6.x before 9.6.0-046 on Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices mishandles malformed fields during body-contains, attachment-contains, every-attachment-contains, attachment-binary-contains, dictionary-match, and attachment-dictionary-match filtering, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted attachment in an e-mail message, aka Bug ID CSCuv47151.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151104-esa2 CVEVendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034064 CVE
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151104-esa2 [email protected]Vendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034064 [email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-20Improper Input Validation[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
cisco email security appliance
7.7.0-000
7.7.1-000
8.0_base
8.5.6-052
8.5.6-073

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:7.7.0-000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:7.7.1-000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.0_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.6-052:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.6-073:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.6-074:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.6-106:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.6-113:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.7-042:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.0.0-212:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.0.0-461:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.0.5-000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.1.0-032:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.6.0-042:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-6291
NVD Published Date:
Nov 6, 2015
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2015-6291 Details - Not Deferred