full-disclosure - rumours of new Cisco IOS vulnerability

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307161512070.22365-100000@whitey.org>
From: asi at whitey.org (asi)
Subject: rumours of new Cisco IOS vulnerability

I've heard it only effects routers using BGP, but it's only rumours


On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Len Rose wrote:

> 
> They've been discussing the existence of
> a new Cisco IOS attack on the NANOG mailing
> list (see http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/ for
> details)
> 
> According to what I've been reading it's a remotely
> exploitable denial of service situation, based on
> specially crafted packets designed to fill up the
> "process switched" input queues on an interface.
> 
> It seemingly will cause the router to crash or
> reboot.
> 
> I have no further details.
> 
> Len
> 
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