CVE-2017-12238

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches VPLS Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Ios

A vulnerability in the Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) code of Cisco IOS 15.0 through 15.4 for Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a C6800-16P10G or C6800-16P10G-XL type line card to crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to a memory management issue in the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a large number of VPLS-generated MAC…

29. Sep 2017

Ausgewertete Quellen

• Hersteller
  https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170927-vpls
• Hinweis
  http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101040
• Hinweis
  http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039453
• CISA
  https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-12238
• CISA
  Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches VPLS Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
• NVD
  CVE-2017-12238