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.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Cisco IP Phone 7940 - Reboot (Denial of Service) EDB-1411 · dos · Jan 10, 2006 · verified
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References
- cisco-ipphone-synflood-dos(24117) vdb-entry
- 22469 vdb-entry
- ADV-2006-0202 vdb-entry
- 20060113 Response to Cisco IP Phone 7940 DoS Exploit posted on milw0rm.com vendor-advisory
- 1015488 vdb-entry
- 18479 third-party-advisory
- http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/cisco_ip7940_dos.pl
- 1411 exploit
- 16200 vdb-entry