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Vulnerability in Cisco PIX and ASA Appliances

by admin on May.04, 2007, under Networking, Security

Cisco confirms the memory exhaustion vulnerability as per the advisory published by CERT/CC and confirms this vulnerability impacts the PIX and ASA appliance for system software 7.2 only. Exploitation of the vulnerability may lead to a Denial of Service condition against the appliance.

The Firewall Services Module (FWSM) is not affected by this vulnerability.

PSIRT would like to thank Grant Deffenbaugh and Lisa Sittler from the CERT/CC for reporting this vulnerability to Cisco.

We greatly appreciate the opportunity to work with researchers on security vulnerabilities, and welcome the opportunity to review and assist in security vulnerability reports against Cisco products.

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