Cisco ASA Next-Generation Firewall Fragmented Traffic Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco ASA Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Services contains a Fragmented Traffic Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability on the Cisco ASA NGFW could cause the device to reload or stop processing user traffic that has been redirected by the parent Cisco ASA to the ASA NGFW module for further inspection.

There are no workarounds for this vulnerability, but mitigations are available.

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20130626-ngfw[“https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20130626-ngfw”]