Description: The Madynes research team at INRIA Lorraine has reported some vulnerabilities in Cisco IP Phone 7940 and 7960, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within the handling of certain SIP message sequences. These can be exploited to reboot the device by sending a series of specially crafted SIP messages.
The vulnerabilities are reported in firmware version POS3-08-6-00.
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