certfr_avis - certa-2009-avi-422

CERTA-2009-AVI-422

Vulnerability from certfr_avis

Une vulnérabilité dans Mc Afee Email and Web Security Appliance permet à une personne malintentionnée de provoquer un déni de service à distance.

Description

Une erreur dans l'implémentation du protocole TCP de Mc Afee Email and Web Security Appliance permet à une personne malintentionnée de provoquer un déni de service à distance.

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

Mc Afee Email and Web Security Appliance versions antérieures à la 5.1 Patch 4.

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2008-4609 (GCVE-0-2008-4609)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2008-10-20 17:00

Modified

2024-08-07 10:24

Severity ?

CWE

Summary

The TCP implementation in (1) Linux, (2) platforms based on BSD Unix, (3) Microsoft Windows, (4) Cisco products, and probably other operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection queue exhaustion) via multiple vectors that manipulate information in the TCP state table, as demonstrated by sockstress.

References

URL

Tags

	http://blog.robertlee.name/2008/10/conjecture-speculation.html	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/tcp-vulnerabilities.html	x_refsource_MISC
	http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125856010926699&w=2	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_HP
	http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2008-October/005360.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://insecure.org/stf/tcp-dos-attack-explained.html	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.outpost24.com/news/news-2008-10-02.html	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/tn-03-09-security-assessment-TCP.pdf	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080af511d.shtml	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO
	http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-251A.html	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CERT
	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_response09186a0080a15120.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO
	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-048	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MS
	http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/articles/27154-TCP-is-fundamentally-borked	x_refsource_MISC
	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6340	vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
	http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
	http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125856010926699&w=2	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_HP

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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