Re: rumours of new Cisco IOS vulnerability

[asi <asi () whitey org>]

I've heard it only effects routers using BGP, but it's only rumours


On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Len Rose wrote:

> They've been discussing the existence of
> a new Cisco IOS attack on the NANOG mailing
> list (see http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/ for
> details)
>
> According to what I've been reading it's a remotely
> exploitable denial of service situation, based on
> specially crafted packets designed to fill up the
> "process switched" input queues on an interface.
>
> It seemingly will cause the router to crash or
> reboot.
>
> I have no further details.
>
> Len
>
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