CVE-2001-1071 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via memory consumption by flooding CDP neighbor announcements on Cisco IOS devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2001-1071?
CVE-2001-1071 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Ios, published on 25 Jun 2002. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Cisco IOS 12.2 and earlier running Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of CDP neighbor announcements.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-1071?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Cisco Catos, Cisco Ios.
How do I fix CVE-2001-1071?
No fix has been published for CVE-2001-1071 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-2001-1071 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2001-1071 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Ios
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x25r-pmgp-r2rg.