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Cisco ASA Failover Denial of Service Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA17550
Release Date: 2005-11-15
Last Update: 2005-12-07
Popularity: 9,829 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

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

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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
The vendor recommends that port security should be configured for all switch ports in the same VLANs as the active and standby firewalls enabled interfaces to prevent an attacker from spoofing the active firewall's interface MAC address.

The firewall log should also be monitored for any IP address collisions.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Amin Tora, ePlus Security Team.

Changelog:
2005-12-07: Added CVE reference.

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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