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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Edge Services SYN Flood Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA26122
Release Date: 2007-07-19
Last Update: 2007-07-27
Popularity: 4,236 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-3923


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in Edge Services, which uses CIFS optimisation, when handling packets sent to ports 139/TCP and 445/TCP. This can be exploited to cause a device running WAAS to stop processing all traffic by sending a TCP SYN flood to port 139/TCP or 445/TCP.

Successful exploitation requires that WAAS is configured for Edge Services.

The vulnerability is reported in WAE appliances and the NM-WAE-502 network modules running WAAS versions 4.0.7 or 4.0.9.

Solution:
Update to version 4.0.11.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/waas40?psrtdcat20e2

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2007-07-27: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Cisco:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070718-waas.shtml


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