CVE-2008-3817

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

23/10/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Memory leak in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 Series and PIX Security Appliances 8.0 before 8.0(4) and 8.1 before 8.1(2) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an unspecified sequence of packets, related to the "initialization code for the hardware crypto accelerator."

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_5500_series::::::::
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:pix_security_appliance:8.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:pix_security_appliance:8.1:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2008-3817

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools