CVE-2006-0179

The Cisco IP Phone 7940 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a large amount of TCP SYN packets (syn flood) to arbitrary ports, as demonstrated to port 80.

• CWE-119

• http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/cisco_ip7940_dos.plExploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18479Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015488Exploit, Patch
• http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-response-20060113-ip-phones.shtmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.osvdb.org/22469
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16200Exploit
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0202Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24117
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1411
• http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/cisco_ip7940_dos.plExploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18479Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015488Exploit, Patch
• http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-response-20060113-ip-phones.shtmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.osvdb.org/22469
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16200Exploit
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0202Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24117
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1411

Published

Jan 11, 2006

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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