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Cisco IOS XR LPTS Denial of Service Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

CISCO

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

8 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

A vulnerability in the Local Packet Transport Services (LPTS) network stack of Cisco IOS XR for Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a limited denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected platform. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of flow base entries by LPTS. This can cause too many known entries for a protocol to be created, causing existing or new sessions to be dropped. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending continuous connection attempts to the open TCP ports to cause an exhaustion of services. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a limited DoS condition on an affected platform. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that address this vulnerability are not available.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.

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