CVE-2008-4543 (GCVE-0-2008-4543)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-13 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:17
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Summary
Cisco Unity 4.x before 4.2(1)ES161, 5.x before 5.0(1)ES53, and 7.x before 7.0(2)ES8, when using anonymous authentication (aka native Unity authentication), allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session exhaustion) via a large number of connections.
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