PT-2015-4799 · Cisco · Cisco Ios Xr

Published 2015-03-26 · Updated 2015-09-04 · CVE-2015-0672

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco IOS XR version 5.2.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a service outage, by sending a flood of crafted DHCP packets.

Recommendations For Cisco IOS XR version 5.2.2, consider implementing rate limiting or filtering for DHCP packets to minimize the risk of exploitation. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to the DHCP service until a patch is available.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-0672

Affected Products

Cisco Ios Xr

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0672 · Security Note
• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=38006 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1031970 · Note