CVE-2008-3817 (GCVE-0-2008-3817)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-23 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:52
VLAI
Summary
Memory leak in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 Series and PIX Security Appliances 8.0 before 8.0(4) and 8.1 before 8.1(2) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an unspecified sequence of packets, related to the "initialization code for the hardware crypto accelerator."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
cisco CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 66/100 over 376 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31865 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/32392 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021088 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_secu… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2899 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2008-10-22 00:00
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