A vulnerability in the implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) functionality in Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of a BGP update message that contains a specific BGP attribute. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending BGP update messages that include a specific, malformed attribute to be processed by an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the BGP process to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition. The Cisco implementation of BGP accepts incoming BGP traffic only from explicitly defined peers. To exploit this vulnerability, the malicious BGP update message would need to come from a configured, valid BGP peer or would need to be injected by the attacker into the victim’s BGP network on an existing, valid TCP connection to a BGP peer.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2020-01-26T04:30:38.252280Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:25:31.603Z

Reserved: 2019-09-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-15989

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-01-26T05:15:13.567

Modified: 2020-01-29T19:46:44.363

Link: CVE-2019-15989

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