Modem.ATH.Hangup

Release Date Jan 17, 2007
Severity medium
Impact Denial of service
Description It indicates a possible exploit of a denial of service vulnerability in various modems. An attacker can send an AT command to a remote computer that responds to commands, such as ctcp, ping, and icmp, to cause the modem on the responding computer to execute the received commands. This attack can be performed on any computer with a Global Village modem.
Affected Products Any application Any version
Recommended Actions Disable the escape "+++" by setting the S2 register to a value of: 127 for 7-bit modems 256 for 8-bit modems
Coverage IPS VCM
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) CVE-1999-1228

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