Cisco admits hole could let hackers in

Sorry about that...

By Aled Herbert, 3 April 2002 08:55

NEWS Cisco has warned that a vulnerability in one of its telephony products could let hackers launch denial of service attacks. The Cisco CallManager product contains a vulnerability which can lead it to crash and reload in the event of a memory leak in the CTI Framework authentication, according to a report on the company's website. The vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious hacker to initiate a denial of service attack. Cisco said workarounds are available to fix the vulnerability, which affects versions 3.0 and 3.1 of the software. Details of the vulnerability are available here:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/callmanager-ctifw-leak-pub.shtml

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