Number: AV20-286
Date: 6 August 2020
On 5 August 2020 Cisco published Security Advisories to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. Included were high severity patches for the following:
- Cisco Small Business Smart and Managed Switches (multiple versions/series)
- Cisco Data Center (versions prior to 1.3.1.4)
- Cisco StarOS IPv6 (multiple versions) affecting the following products:
- Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
- Cisco Virtualized Packet Core-Single Instance (VPC-SI)
- Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows (versions prior to 4.9.00086)
By exploiting some of these vulnerabilities, an unauthenticated remote actor could cause a denial of service or gain access to sensitive information, or an authenticated local actor could perform DLL hijacking.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply the necessary updates:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/publicationListing.x
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