CVE-2015-4278 (GCVE-0-2015-4278)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-16 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:11
VLAI
Summary
Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices with software 8.5.6-106 and 9.5.0-201 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (per-domain e-mail reception outage) by placing malformed DMARC policy data in DNS TXT records for a domain, aka Bug ID CSCuv14806.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032961 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2015-07-15 00:00
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