Cisco Pix Firewall 7.2.2 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Cisco Pix Firewall 7.2.2. The impacted element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2007-0959. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Pix Firewall 7.2.2 (Firewall Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cisco PIX 500 and ASA 5500 Series Security Appliances 7.2.2, when configured to inspect certain TCP-based protocols, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reboot) via malformed TCP packets.

The bug was discovered 02/14/2007. The weakness was presented 02/14/2007 (Website). The advisory is shared at securitytracker.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-0959 since 02/15/2007. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (32488), SecurityFocus (BID 22562†), OSVDB (33062†), Secunia (SA24160†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1017651†). See VDB-2940, VDB-2944 and VDB-35054 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: securitytracker.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2007-0959 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-0959
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-35053
X-Force: 32488
SecurityFocus: 22562 - Cisco PIX/ASA Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 24160 - Cisco PIX and ASA Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 33062 - Cisco PIX / ASA Malformed TCP Packet DoS
SecurityTracker: 1017651
Vulnerability Center: 14295 - [cisco-sa-20070214-pix] Cisco PIX 500 and ASA 5500 7.2.2 Remote DoS via Malformed TCP Packets, High
Vupen: ADV-2007-0608

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/13/2015 12:16
Updated: 07/14/2019 16:46
Changes: 03/13/2015 12:16 (64), 07/14/2019 16:46 (8)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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