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TITLE:
Cisco ASA and PIX IPv6 Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32391

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32391/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 7.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/6115/
Cisco PIX 7.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/6102/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco ASA and PIX appliances,
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 IPv6 packets and can be exploited to reload an affected
device by sending specially crafted IPv6 packets to an IPv6 interface
of the device.

Successful exploitation requires that the device is configured for
IPv6.

The vulnerability is reported in version 7.2(4)9 and 7.2(4)10.

NOTE: 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, and 8.1 releases are reportedly not affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 7.2(4)11.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Cisco:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20081022-asa.shtml

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