Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cisco ASA 5500 Series Devices (Bug ID CSCtq50523)

CVE-2011-2060 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The platform-sw component on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.2 before 8.2(5.3), 8.3 before 8.3(2.20), and 8.4 before 8.4(2.1) does not properly handle non-ASCII characters in an interface description, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (reload without configuration) via a crafted description, aka Bug ID CSCtq50523.

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