Buffer overflow in Cisco Ip Phone 7940
CVE-2006-0179
The Cisco IP Phone 7940 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a large amount of TCP SYN packets (syn flood) to arbitrary ports, as demonstrated to port 80.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.136 (96.4th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.136 · newest: 0.136 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24117 (vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/22469 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0202 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-response-20060113-ip-phones.shtml (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/18479 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/cisco_ip7940_dos.pl (Exploit)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1411 (exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/16200 (Exploit, vdb-entry)