National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-5039

Overview

Memory leak in the gk_circuit_info_do_in_acf function in the H.323 implementation in Cisco IOS before 15.0(1)XA allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of calls over a long duration, as demonstrated by InterZone Clear Token (IZCT) test traffic, aka Bug ID CSCsz72535.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: cisco-ios-gkcircuitinfodoinacf-dos(64731)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/64731

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_0/15_0x/15_01_XA/rn800xa.pdf

Hyperlink:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_0/15_0x/15_01_XA/rn800xa.pdf