Description: A vulnerability has been reported in the Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM), 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 data in the control-plane path with Layer 7 Application Inspections. This can be exploited to cause a crash and reload the FWSM via specially crafted network traffic.
The vulnerability is reported in FWSM System Software version 3.2(3).
Solution: Update to FWSM software version 3.2(4) (available approximately 2007-12-31).
Apply vendor workaround (see vendor advisory for details).
Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by the vendor.
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