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.
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-4644 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:51:18.049Z

Reserved: 2011-01-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-4679

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2011-01-07T12:00:50.233

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-4679

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