Vulnerability CVE-2008-3817
Published: 2008-10-23   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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."

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Cisco -> Adaptive security appliance 5500 series 
Cisco -> Pix security appliance 

 References:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080a183ba.shtml
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46027
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2899
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021088
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31865
http://secunia.com/advisories/32392
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5597
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