Title : Cisco Content Switching Module Multiple Remote Denial of Serice Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3062 CVE ID : CVE-2007-4788 - CVE-2007-4789
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-09-06
Technical Description
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Cisco Content Switching Modules (CSM) and Cisco Content Switching Module with SSL (CSM-S), which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service.
The first issue is caused by an error when processing malformed TCP packets, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a vulnerable device to reload or exhaust all available memory resources, creating a denial of service condition.
The second vulnerability is caused by an error in the service termination when enabled on a module that is under high network utilization, which could cause a vulnerable system.
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