Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4679

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-01-07 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:51:18
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software before 8.2(3) do not properly handle Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) connection failures, which allows remote OCSP responders to cause a denial of service (TCP socket exhaustion) by rejecting connection attempts, aka Bug ID CSCsz36816.