Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall H.323 Inspection
Denial of Service Vulnerability

Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20130116-asa1000v

Revision 1.0

For Public Release 2013 January 16 16:00  UTC (GMT)

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Summary
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A vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software for
the Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall may cause the Cisco ASA 1000V to
reload after processing a malformed H.323 message. Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud
Firewall is affected when H.323 inspection is enabled.

Cisco has released free software updates that address this
vulnerability.

This advisory is posted at the following link:

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-2013011
6-asa1000v

Note: Only Cisco ASA Software for the Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall
is affected by the vulnerability described in this advisory. Cisco ASA
5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series ASA
Services Module or Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Firewall Services Module
(FWSM) are not affected by this vulnerability.

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