National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3812
Original release date:09/26/2008
Last revised:05/14/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cisco IOS 12.4, when IOS firewall Application Inspection Control (AIC) with HTTP Deep Packet Inspection is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a malformed HTTP transit packet.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CISCO
Name: 20080924 Cisco IOS Software Firewall Application Inspection Control Vulnerability
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=16661
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 31354
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2670
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31990
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5302