CVE-2014-3270 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Cisco IOS XR DHCPv6 implementation by sending malformed packets.

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-2014-3270?

CVE-2014-3270 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Ios Xr, published on 20 May 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The DHCPv6 implementation in Cisco IOS XR allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang) via a malformed packet, aka Bug ID CSCul80924.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3270?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Ios Xr.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3270?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-3270 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-2014-3270 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3270 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Cisco Ios Xr vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-2c36-jpqg-cq22.

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