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Cisco IOS Malformed OSPF Packet Causes Reload - Cisco Systems

medium Nessus Plugin ID 48976

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

A Cisco device running Internetwork Operating System (IOS) and enabled for the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) attack from a malformed OSPF packet. The OSPF protocol is not enabled by default.

The vulnerability is only present in Cisco IOS release trains based on 12.0S, 12.2, and 12.3. Releases based on 12.0, 12.1 mainlines, and all Cisco IOS images prior to 12.0 are not affected.

Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability.
There are workarounds available to mitigate the effects.

Solution

Apply the relevant patch referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20040818-ospf.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8ff05ae1

http://www.nessus.org/u?e0bb2a4e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 48976

File Name: cisco-sa-20040818-ospfhttp.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 9/1/2010

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1454

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20040818-ospf

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCec16481