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Cisco IOS SIP Packet Handling Reload Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA23978
Release Date: 2007-01-31
Last Update: 2007-02-05
Popularity: 11,250 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Cisco IOS 12.x
Cisco IOS R12.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0648


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco IOS, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling certain SIP packets and can be exploited to cause the device to reload via a specially crafted packet sent to port 5060.

Successful exploitation requires that the device supports voice and is not configured for SIP.

Please see the vendor's advisory for a list of affected products and versions.

Solution:
Update to a fixed version (please see the vendor's advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported to the vendor by a customer.

Changelog:
2007-01-31: Added link to US-CERT.
2007-02-05: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Cisco Systems:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070131-sip.shtml
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-air-20070131-sip.shtml

Other References:
US-CERT VU#438176:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/438176


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