Crafted TCP Packet Can Cause Denial of Service

high Nessus Plugin ID 48997

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Synopsis

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

Description

The Cisco IOS Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) listener in certain versions of Cisco IOS software is vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable memory leak that may lead to a denial of service condition.
This vulnerability only applies to traffic destined to the Cisco IOS device. Traffic transiting the Cisco IOS device will not trigger this vulnerability.
Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability for affected customers.

Solution

Apply the relevant patch referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20070124-crafted-tcp.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e1512f4a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 48997

File Name: cisco-sa-20070124-crafted-tcphttp.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 9/1/2010

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/24/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0479