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Cisco IOS Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29559
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Release Date:
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2008-03-27
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Cisco 7600 Series 12.x
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series 12.x
Cisco IOS 12.x
Cisco IOS R12.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-0537 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in certain Cisco devices, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the handling of certain packets and can be exploited to cause a blocked interface input queue, a memory leak, or a restart of the device.
Successful exploitation requires that the device is configured for Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Networking (VPN) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) sham-link.
The vulnerability is reported in the following products:
* Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series devices with the Sup32, Sup720, Sup720-3B, or Sup720-3BXL
* Cisco 7600 Series devices with the Sup32, Sup720, Sup720-3B, or Sup720-3BXL
* Cisco 7600 Series devices with the RSP720, RSP720-3C, or RSP720-3CXL
* Cisco ME 6524 Ethernet Switch
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.
Original Advisory:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080326-queue.shtml
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