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Cisco IOS ICMP Redirect Denial of Service

high Nessus Plugin ID 17794

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Synopsis

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

Description

It is possible to cause a denial of service by flooding the remote device with ICMP requests, which will cause the redirect cache to grow.

Solution

Apply the relevant patch which can be obtained from the Cisco Bug tracker.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2002/May/198

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 17794

File Name: cisco_ios_icmp_redirect_dos.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 1/10/2012

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-2315

BID: 4786

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCdx32056