CVE-2003-0556 (GCVE-0-2003-0556)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-07-15 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:58
VLAI
Summary
Polycom MGC 25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of "user" requests to the control port 5003, as demonstrated using the blast TCP stress tester.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105804648003163&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Date Public
2003-07-12 00:00
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