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RIP poisoning

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Poison routing tables through RIP

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

It was possible to poison the remote host routing tables through
the RIP protocol.
A possible hacker may use this to hijack network connections.

Solution : use RIP-2 and implement authentication,
or use another routing protocol,
or disable the RIP listener if you don't need it.

Network Security Threat Level: Low

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Michel Arboi

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