VUPEN Security - Nortel SIP Multimedia PC Client Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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>> Nortel SIP Multimedia PC Client Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Nortel SIP Multimedia PC Client Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1942
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3157
CWE ID : CWE-19 - CWE-400
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-06-27

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A vulnerability has been identified in Nortel SIP Multimedia PC Client, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused due to the application not limiting the number of sessions, which could be exploited by attackers to exhaust all available memory resources, creating a denial of service condition [...]

Solution

The vendor will address this issue in a future release.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by VoIPshield.

ChangeLog

2008-06-27 : Initial release

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