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Cisco Firewall Services Module Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA28175
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Release Date:
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2007-12-20
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Popularity:
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4,637 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Workaround
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| Software: | Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 3.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-5584
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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.
Original Advisory:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20071219-fwsm.shtml
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