Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances
CVE-2012-5415

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Cisco
Status
5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance
Adaptive Security Appliance
5500 Adaptive Security Appliance
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 April 2013

Summary

A race condition in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) enables remote attackers to initiate multiple simultaneous connections, resulting in denial of service. This flaw arises from improper handling of hash lookups for secondary flows, which may lead to increased CPU consumption or even a device reload. The issue is associated with Bug IDs CSCue31622 and CSCuc71272.

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecur...
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO

Timeline

  • Vulnerability Reserved

  • Vulnerability published

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