CVE-2006-0179

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

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

Timeline

Published: Jan 11, 2006
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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