5.0
MEDIUM
CVE-2006-0179
Cisco IP Phone 7940 TCP SYN Flood Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 11, 2006, 9:03 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 12:05 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.9

Exploitability Score :

10.0
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2006-0179 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Cisco ip_phone_7940

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2006-0179 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2006-0179 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/cisco_ip7940_dos.pl
    Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/18479
    Added Reference http://securitytracker.com/id?1015488
    Added Reference http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-response-20060113-ip-phones.shtml
    Added Reference http://www.osvdb.org/22469
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16200
    Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0202
    Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24117
    Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1411
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 19, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://milw0rm.com/exploits/1411 [Exploit]
    Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1411 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 20, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24117 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24117 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 12, 2006

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

2.25 }} -0.72%

score

0.89226

percentile

CVSS2 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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