A vulnerability in the cryptographic hardware accelerator...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 13, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Aug 11, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Oct 5, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 13, 2022
Last updated
Aug 11, 2023
A vulnerability in the cryptographic hardware accelerator driver of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a temporary denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability exists because the affected devices have a limited amount of Direct Memory Access (DMA) memory and the affected software improperly handles resources in low-memory conditions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a sustained, high rate of malicious traffic to an affected device to exhaust memory on the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust DMA memory on the affected device, which could cause the device to reload and result in a temporary DoS condition.
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