Vigil@nce - Cisco ASA: memory leak via WebVPN
February 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can create a memory leak in WebVPN of Cisco ASA, in
order to trigger a denial of service.
– Impacted products: ASA
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 12/02/2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Cisco ASA product offers a WebVPN service.
However, the memory allocated to process HTTP queries is never
freed.
An attacker can therefore create a memory leak in WebVPN 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-WebVPN-16184