Cisco IOS Malformed BGP Packet Processing Remote DoS (CSCee67450)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17635

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote version of IOS is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing malformed BGP packets.

If IPv6 is enabled, an attacker may exploit this flaw to prevent the router from working properly.

Solution

http://www.nessus.org/u?3afb30e4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17635

File Name: CSCee67450.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 3/25/2005

Updated: 6/27/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0196

BID: 12370