Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall H.323 Inspection Denial of Service Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 18 Jan 2013 09:45 Release Date: 18 Jan 2013 3796 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Security software and application - Security Software & Appliance

A vulnerability has been identified in Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an error when inspecting H.323 packets and can be exploited to trigger a reload via a specially crafted packet sent through the device.

Successful exploitation requires that H.323 inspection is enabled (enabled by default).