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Crafted ICMP Messages Can Cause Denial of Service - Cisco Systems

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

A document that describes how the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) could be used to perform a number of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has been made publicly available. This document has been published through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Draft process, and is entitled "ICMP Attacks Against TCP" (draft-gont-tcpm-icmp-attacks-03.txt ).
These attacks, which only affect sessions terminating or originating on a device itself, can be of three types:
Successful attacks may cause connection resets or reduction of throughput in existing connections, depending on the attack type.
Multiple Cisco products are affected by the attacks described in this Internet draft.
Cisco has made free software available to address these vulnerabilities. In some cases there are workarounds available to mitigate the effects of the vulnerability.

Solution

Apply the relevant patch referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20050412-icmp.

See Also

https://www.gont.com.ar/drafts/icmp-attacks-against-tcp.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?1ba12045

http://www.nessus.org/u?8b803ffb

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 48985

File Name: cisco-sa-20050412-icmp.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 9/1/2010

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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: 4/12/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0790, CVE-2004-0791, CVE-2004-1060, CVE-2005-0065, CVE-2005-0066, CVE-2005-0067, CVE-2005-0068

BID: 13124