National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4999
Original release date:11/07/2008
Last revised:01/29/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Nortel Networks UNIStim IP Phone 0604DAS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long ping packet ("ping of death"). NOTE: this issue could not be reproduced by a third party, who tested it on 0604DAD. In addition, the original researcher was not able to reliably reproduce the issue.
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: XF
Name: ipphone-ping-dos(40993)
External Source: BID
Name: 28004
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080226 Re: Re: Nortel IP Phone DoS
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080226 Re: Nortel IP Phone DoS
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080226 Nortel IP Phone DoS
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4568