CVE-2001-0650 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash Cisco IOS devices or corrupt routing tables by sending malformed BGP updates with unrecognized transitive attributes.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2001-0650?

CVE-2001-0650 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Ios, published on 9 Mar 2002. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Cisco devices IOS 12.0 and earlier allow a remote attacker to cause a crash, or bad route updates, via malformed BGP updates with unrecognized transitive attribute.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-0650?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Ios.

How do I fix CVE-2001-0650?

No fix has been published for CVE-2001-0650 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2001-0650 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2001-0650 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-mqp5-7qvm-xrpr.

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