Re: Cisco IOS Denial of Service that affects most Cisco IOS routers- requires power cycle to recover

From: Richard Johnson (rdump_at_river.com)
Date: 07/20/03

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    Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:20:45 -0600
    
    

    In article
    <Pine.BSO.4.53.0307172223150.11409@rhiannon.precision-guesswork.com>,
     Tina Bird <tbird@precision-guesswork.com> wrote:

    > information on the detailed structure of the evil packets in these
    > protocols is not yet public AFAIK.

    The router has problems if it receives a packet, content irrelevant,
    that makes it to supervisor level claiming an IP protocol that it
    doesn't have code to handle.

    The kickup to supervisor level happens when the packet is targeted
    directly at the router's IP address (per first Cisco advisory) or just
    has its TTL expire in transit past the router (per revised Cisco
    advisory).

    Send enough packets (default 75), and the input queue is full. hping is
    enough of a launch platform for that--there's no need for
    questionable-source exploit binaries when testing.

    Richard

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