18055 : Cisco Spoofed EIGRP Packet Saturation DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2002-10-08	2002-10-08

Description

Cisco IOS contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when a flood of spoofed EIGRP neighbor annoucements are sent, causing an ARP storm of address lookups, and will result in loss of availability for the network segment.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Currently, there are no known upgrades or patches to correct this issue. It is possible to correct the flaw by implementing the following workaround(s): implement MD5 authentication on the EIGRP neighbor announcements.

Products

Cisco Systems, Inc.	IOS	11.3
		12.0(19)
		12.2

References

Security Tracker: 1005840
ISS X-Force ID: 10903
CVE ID: 2002-2208 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 6443
Secunia Advisory ID: 7766
Vendor URL: http://www.cisco.com
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/eigrp_issue.html
Generic Exploit URL: http://www.phenoelit.de/irpas/
Other Advisory URL: http://www.phenoelit.de/stuff/CiscoEIGRP.txt

Credit

FX - fxphenoelit.de - Phenoelit Group

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.8
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-05-01 | Disagree?

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