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Vulnerability record · CVE-2006-0179 · published 11 January 2006

CVE-2006-0179: Cisco ip phone 7940 memory buffer overflow vulnerability

Cisco · Ip Phone 7940

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.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 14% · top 3.7% CWE-119 · Memory buffer overflow
5.0CVSS 2.0 base score
14%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
18References, 6 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2006-0179), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.