Vigil@nce - Cisco IOS XR: denial of service via MSDP
September 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can send malicious MSDP packets to Cisco IOS XR, in
order to trigger a denial of service.
Impacted products: Cisco Catalyst, IOS XR Cisco, Cisco Router.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 06/07/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Cisco IOS XR product has a service to manage received MSDP
packets.
However, when malicious MSDP packets are received, a fatal error
occurs.
An attacker can therefore send malicious MSDP packets to Cisco IOS
XR, in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Cisco-IOS-XR-denial-of-service-via-MSDP-23142