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Cisco IOS TCP Listener Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

It is possible to crash the remote device remotely.

Description :

The remote CISCO switch runs a version of IOS contains a flaw which may
cause the remote router to crash when processing specially malformed TCP
ackets.

A possible hacker might use these flaws to crash this router remotely.

Solution :

http://www.nessus.org/u?1885e120

Network Security Threat Level:

Low / CVSS Base Score : 3.3
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:N/I:N/A:C/B:A)

Networks Security ID: 22208

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Tenable Network Security

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