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Cisco Security Advisory 20170322-l2tp

Cisco Security Advisory 20170322-l2tp
Posted Mar 22, 2017
Authored by Cisco Systems | Site cisco.com

Cisco Security Advisory - A vulnerability in the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) parsing function of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of L2TP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted L2TP packet to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, protocol
systems | cisco, osx
advisories | CVE-2017-3857
SHA-256 | 8bea2ddcb93ad10635670df2af50464d0f21871575a44f527c5534396ab6f63d

Cisco Security Advisory 20170322-l2tp

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Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20170322-l2tp

Revision: 1.0

For Public Release: 2017 March 22 16:00 GMT

Last Updated: 2017 March 22 16:00 GMT

CVE ID(s): CVE-2017-3857

CVSS Score v(3): 8.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Summary
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A vulnerability in the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) parsing function of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload.

The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of L2TP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted L2TP packet to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

This advisory is available at the following link:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170322-l2tp ["https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170322-l2tp"]

This advisory is part of the March 22, 2017, release of the Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication, which includes five Cisco Security Advisories that describe five vulnerabilities. All the vulnerabilities have a Security Impact Rating of High. For a complete list of the advisories and links to them, see Cisco Event Response: March 2017 Semiannual Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication ["http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewErp.x?alertId=ERP-60851"].

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