Analyst readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
This CVE describes a remote denial-of-service weakness in Cisco Unified Personal Communicator 7.0 (1.13056). The software can mishandle received data by not freeing memory and not checking allocation success, which may cause the client to fail or become unavailable.
Executive priority
Treat this as an inventory-driven legacy risk. It is not supported by active exploitation evidence in the supplied sources, but any remaining affected installations could disrupt communications and should be retired or remediated through vendor guidance.
Technical view
The issue is a memory-management flaw in Cisco Unified Personal Communicator 7.0 (1.13056). Received data is allocated but not freed, and successful allocation is not validated. The published impact is remote denial of service; no CVSS, CWE, patch details, or exploit confirmation are provided in the bundle.
Likely exposure
Exposure appears limited to environments still running Cisco Unified Personal Communicator 7.0 (1.13056). This is legacy client software, so current exposure depends on asset inventory, endpoint history, and whether any systems still support or depend on that version.
Exploitation context
The provided sources describe a remote denial-of-service condition but do not state active exploitation. The CVE is not listed as KEV in the supplied bundle. No exploit maturity, attack prerequisites, or public weaponization evidence is provided.
Researcher notes
Evidence is sparse: the bundle names one affected version and a remote DoS impact, but lacks CVSS, CWE, patch status, and reproduction detail. Avoid broad product assumptions beyond Cisco Unified Personal Communicator 7.0 (1.13056).
Mitigation direction
- Check Cisco and original advisory guidance for confirmed remediation details.
- Identify and remove or replace any affected legacy client installations.
- Restrict affected client communications to trusted networks where feasible.
- Monitor affected hosts for crashes, memory exhaustion, or repeated client failures.
Validation and detection
- Search endpoint inventory for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator 7.0 (1.13056).
- Confirm whether any business processes still rely on the affected client.
- Review logs or helpdesk records for unexplained client crashes or memory issues.
- Verify whether vendor guidance or replacement software has been applied.
Public sources used
Based on public source material and reviewed before publication.
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- CVSS
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- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- http://www.fuzzmyapp.com/advisories/FMA-2010-002/FMA-2010-002-EN.xmlCVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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