[Full-Disclosure] Potential denial of service bug in Cisco Pix Firewall IOS resolve d in 6.3(3)105

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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:36:43 -0000

Brief Description
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Users of Cisco Pix Firewalls may discover that their pool of NAT'ted IP
addresses is running out, and that a reboot, reload or "clear xlate" on the
firewall clears the problem.

Details
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The problem is caused by the Firewall being swamped by incoming ICMP packets
on the global pool IP addresses. If these are not intercepted by a router
beforehand, the incoming echo requests (that are emanating from
Nachi/Welchia worm infected machines) are preventing the release of the
address translation. ie, the Pix is detecting the blocked traffic as
indication that the translation is still in use.

Permanent fix
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I have been informed by Cisco that this is resolved in 6.3(3)105. The
relevant case ID is CSCec 47609 detailed at
www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCec47609 and
referenced at
www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_tech_note09186a00801b
143a.shtml

Hopefully Cisco will mention this fix in their next major release, as
6.3(3)105 is an engineering release.

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