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TITLE:
Cisco ASA 5500 Series Multicast Traffic Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42942

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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=42942

RELEASE DATE:
2011-01-17

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security
Appliance) 5500 Series, which can be exploited by malicious people to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when handling
multicast traffic and can be exploited to exhaust certain resources
(1550 blocks).

The vulnerability is reported in version 8.2(4) and prior.

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to trusted hosts only (e.g. via network access
control lists).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa82/release/notes/asarn82.html

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