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Security flaws haunt Cisco Wireless LAN Controller

By | September 9, 2010, 10:30am PDT

Summary: Cisco is warning that its Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) product family is affected by seven separate security  vulnerabilities that could allow  a remote attacker to launch denial-of-service attacks, modify device configurations, or bypass access control lists. In an alert issued today, Cisco warned that there are no workarounds to mitigate these issues and urged affected users [...]

Cisco is warning that its Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) product family is affected by seven separate security  vulnerabilities that could allow  a remote attacker to launch denial-of-service attacks, modify device configurations, or bypass access control lists.

In an alert issued today, Cisco warned that there are no workarounds to mitigate these issues and urged affected users to apply the available patches.

The skinny:

  • Two denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities
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  • Three privilege escalation vulnerabilities
  • Two access control list (ACL) bypass vulnerabilities

In the case of the DoS vulnerabilities, an  attacker with the ability to send a malicious IKE or HTTP packets to an affected Cisco WLC could cause the device to crash and reload. Cisco said these vulnerabilities can be exploited from both wired and wireless segments.

The company also called attention to three privilege escalation vulnerabilities that could allow an authenticated attacker with read-only privileges to modify the device configuration.

Two separate ACL bypass flaws could allow an unauthenticated attacker to bypass policies that should be enforced by CPU-based ACLs.

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Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

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