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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2013.0417
Cisco IOS XR Traffic Engineering Denial of Service Vulnerability
21 March 2013
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Cisco IOS XR
Publisher: Cisco Systems
Operating System: Cisco
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2013-1162
Original Bulletin:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-1162
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Cisco Security Notice
Cisco IOS XR Traffic Engineering Denial of Service Vulnerability
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-1162
CVE ID: CVE-2013-1162
Release Date: 2013 March 15 07:56 UTC (GMT)
Last Updated: 2013 March 15 07:56 UTC (GMT)
Summary
A vulnerability exists in the traffic engineering (TE) processing component of
Cisco IOS XR that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the
TE process to restart.
The vulnerability is due to insufficient checking of input to the TE processing
code. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specifically
crafted TE packets.
Affected Products
Product More Information CVSS
Cisco IOS XR Software CSCue04000 5.0/4.1
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