CVE-2014-0677 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a temporary LDP session outage in Cisco NX-OS by sending malformed Hello messages, requiring a patch to mitigate.
- 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-2014-0677?
CVE-2014-0677 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 22 Jan 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) functionality in Cisco NX-OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (temporary LDP session outage) via LDP discovery traffic containing malformed Hello messages, aka Bug ID CSCul88851.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0677?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Nx-Os.
How do I fix CVE-2014-0677?
No fix has been published for CVE-2014-0677 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-2014-0677 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0677 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Nx-Os
Sources
Also known as GHSA-78xq-vj33-mfjv.