National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3817
Original release date:10/23/2008
Last revised:03/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Memory leak in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 Series and PIX Security Appliances 8.0 before 8.0(4) and 8.1 before 8.1(2) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an unspecified sequence of packets, related to the "initialization code for the hardware crypto accelerator."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CISCO
Name: 20081022 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: cisco-asa-cryptoaccelerator-dos(46027)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021088
External Source: BID
Name: 31865
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2899
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32392
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5597