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Cisco ASA: CVE-2016-6424: Cisco ASA Software DHCP Relay Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Cisco ASA: CVE-2016-6424: Cisco ASA Software DHCP Relay Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/06/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/18/2016
Modified
10/21/2021

Description

The DHCP Relay implementation in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 8.4.7.29 and 9.1.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (interface wedge) via a crafted rate of DHCP packet transmission, aka Bug ID CSCuy66942.

Solution(s)

  • cisco-asa-update-latest

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