full-disclosure - rumours of new Cisco IOS vulnerability

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From: robert at infoserf.net (Rob Lemos)
Subject: rumours of new Cisco IOS vulnerability

I have been told that the July 9 issue is not the flaw in question.

Here is as much detail as I have confirmed at this point:

http://news.com.com/2100-1035_3-1026518.html?tag=fd_top

-R

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:14, christopher neitzert wrote:
> Details about the vulnerability here:
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20030709-swtcp.shtml
> 
> 
> Summary
> After receiving eight TCP connection attempts using a non-standard TCP
> flags combination, a Catalyst switch will stop responding to further TCP
> connections to that particular service. In order to re-establish
> functionality of that service, the switch must be rebooted. There is no
> workaround. This vulnerability affects only CatOS. No other Cisco
> products are affected.

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