Title: 3Com TippingPoint IPS Remote Unspecified Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
3Com TippingPoint IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) is a range of commercial network security devices providing inline protection from certain network security threats.
3Com TippingPoint IPS is susceptible to a remote denial of service vulnerability. This issue is reportedly due to certain unspecified, malformed HTTP traffic that results in a denial of service condition.
This issue allows remote attackers to consume excessive CPU resources on affected devices. It is reported that this issue may result in the crash of the device, denying further network services to legitimate users. The vendor states that this issue results in excessive CPU resource utilization.
Further details are unavailable at this time. This record will be updates as further information is disclosed.
Affected Products:
- 3Com TippingPoint IPS TOS
References:
- 3Com: TippingPoint IPS Product Page
- 3Com: TippingPoint Support Page
- Eweek: Web Attack Crashes TippingPoint IPS
- SANS Institute: TippingPoint IPS DoS (High CPU load)
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