Cisco Systems released software security updates Wednesday to address denial-of-service and arbitrary command execution vulnerabilities in several products, including a known flaw in the Apache Struts development framework used by some of them.
The company released new versions of Cisco IOS XR Software to fix an issue with handling fragmented packets that can be exploited to trigger a denial-of-service condition on various Cisco CRS Route Processor cards. The affected cards and the patched software versions available for them are listed in a Cisco advisory.
The company also released security updates for Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), a security policy management platform for wired, wireless, and VPN connections. The updates fix a vulnerability that could be exploited by authenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system and a separate vulnerability that could allow attackers to bypass authentication and download the product's configuration or other sensitive information, including administrative credentials.
Cisco also released updates that fix a known Apache Struts vulnerability in several of its products, including ISE. Apache Struts is a popular open-source framework for developing Java-based Web applications.
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