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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-4999 EUVD-2008-4978GHSA-2w53-4977-5w7j

Nortel Networks UNIStim IP Phone 0604DAS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long ping packet ("ping of deat…

Published Nov 7, 2008 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Nortel Networks UNIStim IP Phone 0604DAS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long ping packet ("ping of death"). NOTE: this issue could not be reproduced by a third party, who tested it on 0604DAD. In addition, the original researcher was not able to reliably reproduce the issue.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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