83101 : Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) IPv6 Transit Traffic Handling Remote DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2012-06-20

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when an unspecified error occurs during the handling of IPv6 transit traffic. This result in loss of availability for the program.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Workaround, Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Security Software

Solution

Upgrade to the version specified in the vendor advisory or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. It is also possible to temporarily work around the flaw by implementing the workaround described in the vendor advisory.

Products

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA)
8.4
8.5
8.6

References

Credit

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.8
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2012-06-21 | Disagree?

Access_vector_2 Access_complexity_2 Authentication_2 Confidentiality_impact_0 Integrity_impact_0 Availability_impact_2

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