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Cisco Catalyst 6000, 6500 and Cisco 7600 Series MPLS Packet Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 49001

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Synopsis

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

Description

Cisco Catalyst 6500 series systems that are running certain versions of Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) are vulnerable to an attack from a Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) packet. Only the systems that are running in Hybrid Mode (Catalyst OS (CatOS) software on the Supervisor Engine and IOS Software on the Multilayer Switch Feature Card (MSFC)) or running with Cisco IOS Software Modularity are affected.
MPLS packets can only be sent from the local network segment.

Solution

Apply the relevant patch referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20070228-mpls.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?99a010c1

http://www.nessus.org/u?08e188df

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 49001

File Name: cisco-sa-20070228-mplshttp.nasl

Version: 1.16

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: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS/Version

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1258