CVE-2006-3678

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-07-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

TippingPoint IPS running the TippingPoint Operating System (TOS) before 2.2.4.6519 allows remote attackers to "force the device into layer 2 fallback (L2FB)", causing a denial of service (page fault), via a malformed packet.

Affected products

3Com Tippingpoint Ips Tos: through 2.2.3.6514

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21154
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1286
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016562
http://www.3com.com/securityalert/alerts/3COM-06-003.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440944/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19125
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2956
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27934
http://secunia.com/advisories/21154
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1286
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016562
http://www.3com.com/securityalert/alerts/3COM-06-003.html

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