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Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2013-6707

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Memory leak in the connection-manager implementation in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.1(.3) and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (multi-protocol management outage) by making multiple management session requests, aka Bug ID CSCug33233.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-772 - Missing Release Of Resource After Effective Lifetime

'Missing release of resource after effective lifetime' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't sufficiently release a resource (e.g. memory, CPU, disk space, etc.) after it is used. If not addressed, attackers can launch a denial of service attack (by allocating a resource and not releasing it).

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published