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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anusha" data-source="post: 241148" data-attributes="member: 828">Cisco is warning of three vulnerabilities within its Internet Operating System software; the company has published workarounds and issued an updated version of the software. A denial-of-service attack, running arbitrary code and a device having to reload its OS are all possible on an affected switch router. The latter means a secondary, sustained DOS condition could be caused since packets won't go through the device. "Because devices running IOS may transmit traffic for a number of other networks, the secondary impacts of a denial of service may be severe," CERT said.The three problems are:    * TCP packet problem: A memory leak in certain versions of IOS could lead to a DOS attack, according to an advisory from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team.    * IPv6 router header vulnerability: IOS can fail to properly process IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) packets with specially crafted routing heads, which could allow a DOS attack or the running of arbitrary code. IPv6 is a set of specifications that enables more IP addresses to be available on the Internet.    * Crafted IP option vulnerability: This is a bug concerning how IOS processes IPv4 packets with a specially crafted IP option, CERT said. It could also enable a DOS attack or the running of arbitrary code.News source: <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128652-pg,1/article.html" target="_blank">PC World</a></blockquote>

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