CVE-2010-4679 Information

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software before 8.2(3) do not properly handle Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) connection failures which allows remote OCSP responders to cause a denial of service (TCP socket exhaustion) by rejecting connection attempts aka Bug ID CSCsz36816.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/42931 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa82/release/notes/asarn82.pdf http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45767 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024963 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64605