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Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS MPLS Forwarding Infrastructure
Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20080924-mfi
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-mfi.shtml
Revision 1.0
For Public Release 2008 September 24 1600 UTC (GMT)
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Summary
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Cisco IOS Software Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Forwarding
Infrastructure (MFI) is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS)
attack from specially crafted packets. Only the MFI is affected by
this vulnerability. Older Label Forwarding Information Base (LFIB)
implementation, which is replaced by MFI, is not affected.
Cisco has released free software updates that address this
vulnerability.
This advisory is posted at
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-mfi.shtml
NOTE: The September 24, 2008 IOS Advisory bundled publication
includes twelve Security Advisories. Eleven of the advisories address
vulnerabilities in Cisco's IOS software, and one advisory addresses
vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Each
Advisory lists the releases that correct the vulnerability described
in the Advisory. Please reference the following software table to
find a release that fixes all published IOS software Advisories as of
September 24th, 2008:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-bundle.shtml
Individual publication links are listed below:
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-iosips.shtml
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-ssl.shtml
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-sip.shtml
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-cucm.shtml
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-vpn.shtml
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-ipc.shtml
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-ubr.shtml
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-multicast.shtml
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-sccp.shtml
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-iosfw.shtml
* http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080924-l2tp.shtml
Affected Products
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Devices that run Cisco IOS software (including those that support
Cisco IOS Software Modularity) and support MFI are affected if they
are configured for MPLS.
Vulnerable Products
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A device that runs Cisco IOS software and supports MFI will have
mfi_ios in the output of the show subsys command. The following
example shows output from a device that supports MFI:
Router#show subsys name mfi_ios
Class Version
mfi_ios Protocol 1.000.001
Router#
The following example shows output from a device that is configured
for MPLS:
Router#show mpls interface
Interface IP Tunnel BGP Static Operational
Ethernet0/0 Yes (ldp) No No No Yes
Router#
To determine the software running on a Cisco product, log in to the
device and issue the "show version" command to display the system
banner. Cisco IOS software will identify itself as "Internetwork
Operating System Software" or simply "IOS". On the next line of
output, the image name will be displayed between parentheses,
followed by "Version" and the IOS release name. Other Cisco devices
will not have the "show version" command or will give different
output.
The following example identifies a Cisco product that is running
Cisco IOS release 12.4(11)T2:
Router#show version
Cisco IOS Software,7200 Software (C7200-ADVSECURITYK9-M), Version 12.4(11)T2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc4)
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