National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2739

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CISCO

Name: 20080924 Cisco IOS IPS Denial of Service Vulnerability

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080a01556.shtml

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2670

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2670

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31990

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31990

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6058

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6058

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6058

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6058