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TITLE:
Cisco Firewall Services Module Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28175

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28175/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/8614/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Cisco Firewall Services
Module (FWSM), which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a
DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the
processing of data in the control-plane path with Layer 7 Application
Inspections. This can be exploited to cause a crash and reload the
FWSM via specially crafted network traffic.

The vulnerability is reported in FWSM System Software version 3.2(3).

SOLUTION:
Update to FWSM software version 3.2(4) (available approximately
2007-12-31).

Apply vendor workaround (see vendor advisory for details).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20071219-fwsm.shtml

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