Info

Disclosure

Sep 26, 2012

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Sep 26, 2012

Description

Cisco IOS contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. When a BGP neighbor session has been established an error may occur during the handling of BGP attributes, which may result in the BGP session being reset.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to the version specified in the vendor advisory or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco IOS

15.2S

References

Security Tracker: 1027576
CVE ID: 2012-4617 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 50778
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120926-bgp

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/85814