CVE-2008-2092
Linksys SPA-2102 Phone Adapter 3.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long ping packet ("ping of…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 3.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Linksys SPA-2102 Phone Adapter 3.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long ping packet ("ping of death"). NOTE: the severity of this issue has been disputed since there are limited attack scenarios.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Linksys SPA-2102 Phone Adapter Packet Handling - Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31478dos, hardwarepublished 24 Mar 2008Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 20080324 Re: Re: Linksys phone adapter denial of service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080324 Re: Linksys phone adapter denial of service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28414 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20080324 Linksys phone adapter denial of service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080324 Re: Linksys phone adapter denial of service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080325 Re: Linksys phone adapter denial of service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 29523 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- linksys-spa2102-phoneadapter-ping-dos(41436) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-2089 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-2092)Record last updated .