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Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Malformed Packet Denial of Service
cisco-sa-20060712-ips · NA · Published · Updated
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) software version 5.1 is vulnerable to a denial of service condition caused by a malformed packet, which may result in an IPS device becoming inaccessible remotely or via the console and fail to process packets. A power reset is required to recover the IPS device. There are no workarounds for this vulnerability. Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability for affected customers. This advisory is posted at https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20060712-ips.