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Vulnerability Assessment Details

CSCdea77143, CSCdz15393, CSCdt84906

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Uses SNMP to determine if a flaw is present

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote Cisco VPN 3000 concentrator is vulnerable to various flaws
which may permit a possible hacker to use this device
to break into a VPN, disable the remote device by sending
a malformed SSH initialization packet or disable the
remote device by sending a flood of malformed ICMP packets.

This vulnerability is documented with the CISCO
bugs ID CSCdea77143, CSCdz15393 and CSCdt84906

Solution : http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20030507-vpn3k.shtml
Network Security Threat Level: High

*** As Nessus solely relied on the banner of the remote host
*** this might be a false positive

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2003 Renaud Deraison

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