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Cisco ASA and PIX IPv6 Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA32391
Release Date: 2008-10-23
Popularity: 2,867 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 7.x
Cisco PIX 7.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco ASA and PIX appliances, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the processing of IPv6 packets and can be exploited to reload an affected device by sending specially crafted IPv6 packets to an IPv6 interface of the device.

Successful exploitation requires that the device is configured for IPv6.

The vulnerability is reported in version 7.2(4)9 and 7.2(4)10.

NOTE: 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, and 8.1 releases are reportedly not affected.

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