Cisco IOS 6000/6500/7600 Series Layer 2 Frame DoS (CSCdy15598, CSCeb56052)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 12039

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

The remote router contains a version of IOS which has multiple flaws when dealing with specially layer 2 packets.

CISCO identifies this vulnerability as bug id CSCdy15598 and CSCeb56052.

An attacker may use this flaw to render this router inoperable.

Solution

http://www.nessus.org/u?efcdea28

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 12039

File Name: CSCdy15598.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 2/3/2004

Updated: 6/27/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

Required KB Items: SNMP/sysDesc, SNMP/community, CISCO/model

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0244

BID: 9562

CWE: 20