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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-4620

Original release date:09/27/2012

Last revised:02/14/2013

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Cisco IOS 12.2 and 15.0 through 15.2 on Cisco 10000 series routers, when a tunnel interface exists, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (interface queue wedge) via tunneled (1) GRE/IP, (2) IPIP, or (3) IPv6 in IPv4 packets, aka Bug ID CSCts66808.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:7.8 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: XF

Name: ciscoios-tunneled-dos(78883)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/78883

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1027578

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027578

External Source: BID

Name: 55696

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55696

External Source: CISCO

Name: 20120926 Cisco IOS Software Tunneled Traffic Queue Wedge Vulnerability

Type: Advisory