CVE-2007-0918 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System via crafted traffic, causing service disruption.
- 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-2007-0918?
CVE-2007-0918 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Ios, published on 14 Feb 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The ATOMIC.TCP signature engine in the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) feature for Cisco IOS 12.4XA, 12.3YA, 12.3T, and other trains allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IPS crash and traffic loss) via unspecified manipulations that are not properly handled by the regular expression feature, as demonstrated using the 3123.0 (Netbus Pro Traffic) signature.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-0918?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Ios.
How do I fix CVE-2007-0918?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-0918 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-2007-0918 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-0918 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-q9c9-whcq-8v29.