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>> Cisco IP Phone 7940 and 7960 SIP "INVITE" Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Cisco IP Phone 7940 and 7960 SIP "INVITE" Request Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1023
CVE ID : CVE-2007-1542
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-03-20


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A vulnerability has been identified in Cisco IP Phone 7940 and 7960, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is due to an error when processing a specially crafted INVITE request with a malformed "sipURI" field of the Remote-Party-ID, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a vulnerable device to reboot, creating a denial of service condition.

Affected Products

Cisco IP Phone 7940
Cisco IP Phone 7960

Solution

Upgrade to firmware version 8.6(0) (POS8-6-0) :
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sip-ip-phone7960?psrtdcat20e2

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1023
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20070320-sip.shtml

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Humberto J. Abdelnur, Radu State and Olivier Festor (Madynes/INRIA)

ChangeLog

2007-03-20 : Initial release
2007-03-20 : Updated References

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