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Cisco IOS: CVE-2002-1024: Scanning for SSH Can Cause a Crash

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Cisco IOS: CVE-2002-1024: Scanning for SSH Can Cause a Crash

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/26/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/26/2017
Modified
03/03/2023

Description

Cisco IOS 12.0 through 12.2, when supporting SSH, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large packet that was designed to exploit the SSH CRC32 attack detection overflow (CVE-2001-0144).

Solution(s)

  • cisco-ios-upgrade-latest

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