CVE-2006-0179

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-01-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Cisco Ip Phone 7940: all versions

References

http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/cisco_ip7940_dos.pl
http://secunia.com/advisories/18479
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015488
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-response-20060113-ip-phones.shtml
http://www.osvdb.org/22469
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16200
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0202
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24117
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1411
http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/cisco_ip7940_dos.pl
http://secunia.com/advisories/18479
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015488

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