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Cisco Firewall Services Module Denial of Service Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA10433  
Release Date: 2003-12-15

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 1.x

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Description:
Cisco has reported two vulnerabilities in the Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) for Catalyst 6500 series and 7600 series, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerabilities are caused due to an unspecified error when processing SNMPv3 messages, and a boundary error when processing HTTP traffic requests for authentication using TACACS+ or RADIUS.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities crashes and reloads a vulnerable device.

The vulnerabilities affect version 1.1.2 and prior.

Solution:
Update to version 1.1.3 or later.

See "Other References" section for a procedure to upgrade to a fixed software version.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20031215-fwsm.shtml

Other References:
Upgrade Procedure:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/h..._chapter09186a0080159caa.html#1047362



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