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CSCee50294

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Uses SNMP to determine if a flaw is present

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote router contains a version of IOS which has flaw in the DHCP
service/relay service which may let a possible hacker to disable DHCP serving
and or relaying on the remote router.

CISCO identifies this vulnerability as bug id CSCee50294.

Solution : http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20041110-dhcp.shtml
Risk Factor : High

*** As Nessus solely relied on the banner of the remote host
*** this might be a false positive

Networks Security ID: 11649

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security

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