Cisco Wide Area Application Services Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Akamai Connect feature of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on an affected device.

The vulnerability is due to certain file-handling inefficiencies of the affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by directing client systems to access a corrupted file that the client systems cannot decompress correctly. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to crash or hang unexpectedly and result in a DoS condition that may require manual intervention to regain normal operating conditions.

There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

This advisory is available at the following link:
http://ift.tt/2xVj2hP
Security Impact Rating: Medium
CVE: CVE-2017-12256

from Cisco Security Advisory http://ift.tt/2xVj2hP