Cisco ios xr unknown details Denial of Service Vulnerability

Release date:
Updated on: 2013-01-31

Affected Systems:
Cisco ios xr 4.x
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 57604
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2013-1112
 
Cisco Carrier Routing System is a Carrier-level Routing System.

When Cisco ios xr running on the Cisco Carrier Routing System processes some special packets, it can reduce the processing speed of legal traffic and cause a denial of service.
 
<* Source: Salvatore Fresta (drosophilaxxx@gmail.com)

Link: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x? AlertId = 27991
Http://secunia.com/advisories/51989/
Http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-1112
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:
 
Cisco
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Cisco has released a Security Bulletin (CVE-2013-1112) and patches for this:
 
CVE-2013-1112: Cisco Carrier Routing System Small Packets Denial of Service Vulnerability
Link: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-1112