Cisco Pix Firewall prior 7.0 denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Pix Firewall (Firewall Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Cisco PIX 500 and ASA 5500 Series Security Appliances 7.0 before 7.0(4.14) and 7.1 before 7.1(2.1), and the FWSM 2.x before 2.3(4.12) and 3.x before 3.1(3.24), when "inspect http" is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reboot) via malformed HTTP traffic.

The bug was discovered 02/14/2007. The weakness was shared 02/14/2007 (Website). The advisory is available at cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-0962 since 02/15/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 7.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (32486). The entries 2940, 2944 and 35053 are related to this item.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Upgrade: Pix Firewall 7.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2007-0962 (🔍)
X-Force: 32486
SecurityTracker: 1017651
Vulnerability Center: 14300 - [cisco-sa-20070214-pix] Cisco PIX 500 and ASA 5500 Remote DoS via Malformed HTTP Traffic, High
SecurityFocus: 22562 - Cisco PIX/ASA Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 24160 - Cisco PIX and ASA Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 33055 - Cisco PIX / ASA inspect http Malformed HTTP Traffic DoS
Vupen: ADV-2007-0608

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Created: 03/13/2015 12:16
Updated: 07/14/2019 16:46
Changes: 03/13/2015 12:16 (65), 07/14/2019 16:46 (8)
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