Cisco ios xe Software PPPoE Packet Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Cisco IOS XE
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 67603
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-3284
 
Cisco IOS is an interconnected network operating system used on most Cisco system routers and network switches.
 
After PPPoE is enabled, Cisco ios xe on the ASR1000 device has a denial of service vulnerability. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service through malformed PPPoE packets.
 
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Vendor patch:
 
Cisco
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:
 
Http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-3284

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