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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2013.1750
Cisco ASA Management Connections Denial of Service
9 December 2013
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance
Publisher: Cisco Systems
Operating System: Cisco
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2013-6707
Original Bulletin:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-6707
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Cisco Security Notice
Cisco ASA Management Connections Denial of Service
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-6707
CVE ID: CVE-2013-6707
Release Date: 2013 December 6 15:30 UTC (GMT)
Last Updated: 2013 December 6 19:15 UTC (GMT)
Related Documents:
Summary
A vulnerability in the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could
allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected system to
become unresponsive to management session requests via SSH, Telnet, HTTP, and
HTTPS.
The vulnerability is due to a memory leak in the connection manager code when
management flows are created. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by
creating several management session requests.
Affected Products
Product More Information CVSS
Cisco Adaptive Security
Appliance (ASA) Software CSCug33233 4.3/3.6
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