Cisco Products MPLS Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA24348
Release Date: 2007-03-01
Last Update: 2007-03-06
Popularity: 7,513 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

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

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1258


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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when processing MPLS packets and can be exploited to reload an affected system.

The vulnerability affects the following products:
* Cisco Catalyst 6500 systems that run 12.2(18)SXF4 with Cisco IOS Software Modularity
* Cisco Catalyst 6000, 6500 and Cisco 7600 series systems with an MSFC2 or MSFC3 that runs in Hybrid Mode

Solution:
Update to a fixed version (see vendor advisory for details).
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070228-mpls.shtml

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2007-03-06: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070228-mpls.shtml


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