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Cisco ASA: CVE-2016-1379: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance VPN Memory Block Exhaustion Vulnerability

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Cisco ASA: CVE-2016-1379: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance VPN Memory Block Exhaustion Vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/27/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/01/2016
Modified
12/21/2022

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.0 through 9.5.1 mishandles IPsec error processing, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted (1) LAN-to-LAN or (2) Remote Access VPN tunnel packets, aka Bug ID CSCuv70576.

Solution(s)

  • cisco-asa-update-latest

References

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