CVE-2008-2739

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

The SERVICE.DNS signature engine in the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) in Cisco IOS 12.3 and 12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device crash or hang) via network traffic that triggers unspecified IPS signatures, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1447.

The SERVICE.DNS signature engine in the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) in Cisco IOS 12.3 and 12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device crash or hang) via network traffic that triggers unspecified IPS signatures, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1447.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Cisco IOS

First reported 16 years ago

2008-09-26 16:21:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:25:00

Affected Software

Cisco IOS 12.3YI

12.3yi

Cisco IOS 12.4XF

12.4xf

References

31990

20080924 Cisco IOS IPS Denial of Service Vulnerability

Patch

ADV-2008-2670

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6058

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