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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-4622

Original release date:09/27/2012

Last revised:09/27/2012

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Cisco IOS XE 03.02.00.XO.15.0(2)XO on Catalyst 4500E series switches, when a Supervisor Engine 7L-E card is installed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (card reload) via malformed packets that trigger uncorrected ECC error messages, aka Bug ID CSCty88456.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:7.1 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.9

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: CISCO

Name: 20120926 Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Switch with Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine 7L-E Denial of Service Vulnerability

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120926-ecc

Vulnerable software and versions

Configuration 1

AND

* cpe:/o:cisco:ios_xe:3.2.00.xo.15.0%282%29xo

cpe:/h:cisco:catalyst_4500e_series:-

* Denotes Vulnerable Software

Technical Details

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Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4622