Cisco Patches 9 Flaws in Email Security Appliance

The most serious, rated “high severity,” are three DoS flaws in the AsyncOS software for Cisco ESA. The security holes, tracked as CVE-2016-6356, CVE-2016-1486 and CVE-2016-1481, allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a DoS condition on affected devices using specially crafted emails and malicious attachments. CVE-2016-1481 and CVE-2016-6356 affect AsyncOS versions 8.0 and prior,…