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Cisco IOS OSPF Neighbor Announcement Remote Overflow (CSCdp58462)

Article ID: 11283
Last updated: 27 Jan, 2009
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Posted: 22 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.
Updated: 27 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.

Cisco IOS OSPF Neighbor Announcement Remote Overflow (CSCdp58462)

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Plugin ID11283
Bugtraq ID6895
CVE IDCVE-2003-0100

Description:

The Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) implementation in the remote
Cisco IOS software versions is vulnerable to a denial of service
if it receives a flood of neighbor announcements in which more than
255 hosts try to establish a neighbor relationship per interface.

An attacker may use this flaw to prevent your router from working
properly

This vulnerability is documented as Cisco Bug ID CSCdp58462.

Solution :
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sn-20030221-ospf.shtml
Risk factor : Critical

*** As solely relied on the banner of the remote host
*** this might be a false positive
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