by CIO Staff

Cisco Discloses 3 Router Security Vulnerabilities

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Jan 25, 20072 mins
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Cisco Systems is warning of three vulnerabilities within its Internet Operating System (IOS) software that could allow a denial-of-service (DoS) attack or let a hacker run arbitrary code on an affected switch router.

The company has published workarounds and issued an updated version of the software.

The three problems are:

CERT wrote that all three vulnerabilities could cause a device to reload its OS. In that case, a secondary, sustained DoS condition could be caused since packets won’t go through the device.

“Because devices running IOS may transmit traffic for a number of other networks, the secondary impacts of a denial of service may be severe,” CERT said.

-Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service (London Bureau)

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