White Paper Abstract:
This Applied Mitigation Bulletin is a companion document to the PSIRT Security Advisory Cisco IOS
Software Internet Key Exchange Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability and provides identification and
mitigation techniques that administrators can deploy on Cisco network devices.
Cisco IOS Software contains an IPSec vulnerability when it processes specially crafted packets. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely without authentication and without end-user interaction. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Repeated attempts to exploit this vulnerability could result in a sustained DoS condition.