Vigil@nce - Cisco ASA: memory leak via SSL VPN
December 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can create a memory leak in SSL VPN of Cisco ASA, in
order to trigger a denial of service.
Impacted products: ASA
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 27/11/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Cisco ASA product offers a SSL VPN service.
However, the memory allocated to process some HTTP packets is
never freed.
An attacker can therefore create a memory leak in SSL VPN of Cisco
ASA, in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Cisco-ASA-memory-leak-via-SSL-VPN-15713