Vulnerability Bulletins

Cisco IOS XR LPTS Denial of Service Vulnerability

   
Affected software Cisco
 
A vulnerability in the Local Packet Transport Services (LPTS) network stack of Cisco IOS XR for Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a limited denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected platform. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of flow base entries by LPTS. This can cause too many known entries for a protocol to be created, causing existing or new sessions to be dropped. An attacker could exploit this

More info:

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160519-ios-xr?vs_f=Cisco%20Security%20Advisory&vs_cat=Security%20Intelligence&vs_type=RSS&vs_p=Cisco%20IOS%20XR%20LPTS%20Denial%20of%20Service%20Vulnerability&vs_k=1