CVE-2009-2049 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a device reload via malformed BGP updates when RFC4893 routing is enabled, impacting network availability.
- 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-2009-2049?
CVE-2009-2049 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Ios, published on 30 Jul 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Cisco IOS 12.0(32)S12 through 12.0(32)S13 and 12.0(33)S3 through 12.0(33)S4, 12.0(32)SY8 through 12.0(32)SY9, 12.2(33)SXI1 through 12.2(33)SXI2, 12.2XNC before 12.2(33)XNC2, 12.2XND before 12.2(33)XND1, and 12.4(24)T1; and IOS XE 2.3 through 2.3.1t and 2.4 through 2.4.0; when RFC4893 BGP routing is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) by using an RFC4271 peer to send a malformed update, aka Bug ID CSCta33973.
Weakness: CWE-16
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2049?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Cisco Ios, Cisco Ios Xe.
How do I fix CVE-2009-2049?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2049 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-2009-2049 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2049 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-58fr-3wc6-jc6c.