Cisco IP Phone Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CVE-2006-0179)

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. This plugin only works with Tenable.ot. Please visit https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-ot for more information...

CVE-2006-0179

The CVE-2006-0179 issue affects Cisco IP Phone 7940. It describes a remote denial-of-service where an attacker can cause a reboot by sending a large volume of TCP SYN packets to arbitrary ports, with a demonstration targeting port 80. Connected documents corroborate the reboot-based DoS vector vi...