Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Cisco Advisrory VI :Cisco IOS Software Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) Denial of Service Vulnerability

Summary

A vulnerability exists in the Cisco IOS software implementation of Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP), which affects limited Cisco IOS software releases.

Several features enable the L2TP mgmt daemon process within Cisco IOS software, including but not limited to Layer 2 virtual private networks (L2VPN), Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol Version 3 (L2TPv3), Stack Group Bidding Protocol (SGBP) and Cisco Virtual Private Dial-Up Networks (VPDN). Once this process is enabled the device is vulnerable.

This vulnerability will result in a reload of the device when processing a specially crafted L2TP packet.

Cisco has released free software updates that address this vulnerability.

Workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability are available.

This advisory is posted at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-l2tp.shtml

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