CVE-2006-0179 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Cisco	Ip Phone 7940

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:h:cisco:ip_phone_7940:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/cisco_ip7940_dos.pl
http://secunia.com/advisories/18479
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015488
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-response-20060113-ip-phones.shtml
http://www.osvdb.org/22469
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16200
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0202
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24117
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1411

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-01-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:25:34.043Z

Reserved: 2006-01-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-0179

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-01-11T21:03:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2006-0179

Redhat

No data.

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