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CVE-2008-3817

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2008-10-23 Modified: 2026-06-16

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."

Affected Platforms

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance 5500 SeriesCisco Pix Security Appliance

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References