Cisco IOS MPLS Forwarding Infrastructure Denial of Service Vulnerability - Cisco Systems

high Nessus Plugin ID 49022

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Synopsis

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

Description

Cisco IOS Software Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Forwarding Infrastructure (MFI) is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) attack from specially crafted packets. Only the MFI is affected by this vulnerability. Older Label Forwarding Information Base (LFIB) implementation, which is replaced by MFI, is not affected.

Cisco has released free software updates that address this vulnerability.

Solution

Apply the relevant patch referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20080924-mfi.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 49022

File Name: cisco-sa-20080924-mfihttp.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: combined

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3804

BID: 31360

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20080924-mfi

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCsk93241

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