# CVE-2004-2549: Nortel Wireless LAN (WLAN) Access Point (AP) 2220, 2221, and 2225 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB, 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2005-11-21 · Updated: 2024-08-08

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Nortel Wireless LAN (WLAN) Access Point (AP) 2220, 2221, and 2225 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a TCP request with a large string, followed by 8 newline characters, to (1) the Telnet service on TCP port 23 and (2) the HTTP service on TCP port 80, possibly due to a buffer overflow.

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## References

- http://securitytracker.com/id?1009294
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9787
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15373
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-03/0055.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/4128
- http://www116.nortelnetworks.com/docs/bvdoc/wlan/216109a.pdf
- http://secunia.com/advisories/11034
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23786
- https://github.com/alt3kx/CVE-2004-2549

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