National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6576

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in the "session limitation technique" in the FTP service on Nortel Communications Server 1000 (CS1K) 4.50.x, when running on VGMC or signaling nodes, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failed updates) via unknown vectors that causes consumption of all available sessions.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: nortel-ftp-dos(41804)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41804

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.voipshield.com/research-details.php?id=11

Hyperlink:http://www.voipshield.com/research-details.php?id=11

External Source: BID

Name: 28691

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28691

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=713455

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=713455

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1019845

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1019845

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29747

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29747

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 44380

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/44380