Cisco IOS 12.2/12.4 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco IOS 12.2/12.4. It has been rated as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-3804. No exploit is available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco IOS 12.2/12.4 (Router Operating System). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in the Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Forwarding Infrastructure (MFI) in Cisco IOS 12.2 and 12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted packets for which the software path is used.

The bug was discovered 09/24/2008. The weakness was published 09/26/2008 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared at cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-3804 since 08/27/2008. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 49022 (Cisco IOS MPLS Forwarding Infrastructure Denial of Service Vulnerability - Cisco Systems), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO and running in the context c. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 43296 (Cisco IOS MPLS Forwarding Infrastructure Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20080924-mfi)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (45381), Tenable (49022), SecurityFocus (BID 31360†), OSVDB (48741†) and Secunia (SA31990†). Similar entries are available at VDB-44214, VDB-44213, VDB-44212 and VDB-44211. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 49022
Nessus Name: Cisco IOS MPLS Forwarding Infrastructure Denial of Service Vulnerability - Cisco Systems
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-3804 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-3804
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-44205

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X-Force: 45381
SecurityFocus: 31360 - Cisco IOS MPLS Forwarding Infrastructure Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 31990
OSVDB: 48741 - CVE-2008-3804 - Cisco - IOS - Denial-of-Service Issue
SecurityTracker: 1020934
Vulnerability Center: 19575 - [cisco-sa-20080924-mfi] Cisco IOS MPLS Remote DoS Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-2670

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 05/26/2025 07:22
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (64), 08/17/2019 15:40 (15), 05/26/2025 07:22 (18)
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