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Cisco Regular Expression Processing DoS
medium Nessus Plugin ID 17790
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Synopsis
The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.Description
On September 19, 2007, Cisco released a security response for a denial of service vulnerability in the regular expression processing in IOS. Exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a denial of service crash and reload. This plugin checks if the appropriate fix for the advisory has been installed.Solution
Apply the relevant patch referenced in the Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sr-20070912-regexp.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?c48e7e3f
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/2007-August/043010.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 17790
File Name: cisco-sr-20070912-regexp.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: combined
Family: CISCO
Published: 1/10/2012
Updated: 7/6/2018
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios
Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS/Version
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2002
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/17/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-4430
BID: 25352