Firmware in the Intel Puma 5, 6, and 7 Series might experience resource depletion or timeout, which allows a network malicious user to create a denial of service via crafted network traffic.
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Broadband-throttling bug finally gets a write-up and CVE Intel Pumageddon: Broadband chip bug haunts Chipzilla's past, present and future
More than 18 months after the design blunder was first brought to light, Intel is still working to iron out the creases in its Puma high-speed broadband modem chipsets. In recent weeks, Chipzilla quietly put out an advisory as well as finally confirming a formal CVE entry – CVE-2017-5693 – for the security vulnerability. When exploited by miscreants, this flaw causes Puma 5, 6, and 7 modem components – used in various high-speed broadband gateways – to suffer performance-wise. A particul...
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