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CVE-2007-2461

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2007-05-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The DHCP relay agent in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and PIX 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (dropped packets) via a DHCPREQUEST or DHCPINFORM message that causes multiple DHCPACK messages to be sent from DHCP servers to the agent, which consumes the memory allocated for a local buffer. NOTE: this issue only occurs when multiple DHCP servers are used.

Affected Platforms

Cisco PixCisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References