CVE-2009-0638 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2009-0638

The Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 2.x, 3.1 before 3.1(16),...

Vulnerability Description

The Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 2.x, 3.1 before 3.1(16), 3.2 before 3.2(13), and 4.0 before 4.0(6) for Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches and Cisco 7600 routers allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic-handling outage) via a series of malformed ICMP messages.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

firewall services module
Vulnerable Versions:
2.1_\(0.208\), 2.2, 2.2\(1\), 2.3, 2.3\(1\), 3.1, 3.1\(5\), 3.1\(6\), 3.2, 3.2\(1\), 3.2\(2\), 3.2\(3\), 4.0, 4.0\(4\)

Timeline

Official Publish: August 20th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.