Cisco Catalyst Switches TCP-ACK DoS Vulnerability

CVE-2004-0551 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cisco CatOS 5.x before 5.5(20) through 8.x before 8.2(2) and 8.3(2)GLX, as used in Catalyst switches, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash and reload) by sending invalid packets instead of the final ACK portion of the three-way handshake to the (1) Telnet, (2) HTTP, or (3) SSH services, aka "TCP-ACK DoS attack."

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