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Vulnerability Assessment Details

CSCdz60229, CSCdy87221, CSCdu75477

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

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

It is possible to make the remote IOS crash when sending
it malformed SSH packets during the key exchange.

These flaws are documented as CISCO bug ID CSCdz60229, CSCdy87221 and
CSCdu75477

Solution : See
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/ssh-packet-suite-vuln.shtml
Network Security Threat Level: High

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

Networks Security ID: 6397, 6405, 6407, 6408, 6410

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2003 Renaud Deraison

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