Race Condition Vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA): Multiple Connections Leading to CPU Consumption or Device Reload

Race Condition Vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA): Multiple Connections Leading to CPU Consumption or Device Reload

CVE-2012-5415 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Race condition on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or device reload) by establishing multiple connections, leading to improper handling of hash lookups for secondary flows, aka Bug IDs CSCue31622 and CSCuc71272.

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