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CVE-2006-0179

The Cisco IP Phone 7940 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a large amount of TCP SYN pack

The Cisco IP Phone 7940 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a large amount of TCP SYN packets (syn flood) to arbitrary ports, as demonstrated to port 80.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.1233
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  • EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
  • EPSS percentile: top 6% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • Public exploit or PoC is available
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
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Affected Products & Versions

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cisco ip phone 7940all versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

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dosCisco IP Phone 7940 - Reboot (Denial of Service)verified
pocdownloads.securityfocus.com · cisco_ip7940_dos.pldownloads.securityfocus.com
pocsecuritytracker.com · id?1015488securitytracker.com
pocwww.securityfocus.com · 16200www.securityfocus.com
pocwww.exploit-db.com · 1411www.exploit-db.com
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Scoring & Timeline

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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD11 Jan 2006 · 09:03 PM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://secunia.com/advisories/18479PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-response-20060113-ip-phones.shtmlVendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/22469
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0202Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24117
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