Vigil@nce - Cisco ASA: memory leak via SIP
May 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can create a memory leak via SIP in Cisco ASA, in
order to trigger a denial of service.
Impacted products: ASA
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 23/04/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Cisco ASA product inspects SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
packets.
However, the memory allocated to process some malformed SIP
packets is never freed.
An attacker can therefore create a memory leak via SIP in 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-SIP-14631