[Rumour] Major Cisco Router Exploit

Hey there,

Apparently there's an exploit in routers using BGP. It's all rumour now and Cisco has yet to comment, but here's the link;

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg11210.html

From Full Disclosure:

> 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.
Kind scary..

I guess anyone with a Cisco router using BGP can now be "put on notice" so to speak.

Stuart

EDIT: Upgraded Topic to EXPLOIT. NOCs it's time to start patching if you haven't already. [Rumour] Major Cisco Router Exploit

 

 

 

 

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