A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Cisco CBOS up to 2.4.2ap. This affects an unknown code of the component HTTP/Telnet Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cisco 600 series routers running CBOS 2.0.1 through 2.4.2ap allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via multiple connections to the router on the (1) HTTP or (2) telnet service, which causes the router to become unresponsive and stop forwarding packets.

The weakness was released 08/31/2001 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared at cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2001-1064. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as functional.

It is possible to mitigate the weakness by firewalling .

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (7026). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 17302.

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• Cisco

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• CBOS

Version

• 2.0.1
• 2.1.0
• 2.1.0a
• 2.2.0
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.1a
• 2.3
• 2.3.2
• 2.3.5
• 2.3.7
• 2.3.8
• 2.3.9
• 2.4.1
• 2.4.2
• 2.4.2ap

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• commercial

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• end of life (old version)

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