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CVE-2009-2055

Cisco IOS XR Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2022-03-25. Federal due date: 2022-04-15.

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Impact

Cisco IOS XR 3.4.0 through 3.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session reset) via a BGP UPDATE message with an invalid attribute, as demonstrated in the wild on 17 August 2009.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
CiscoIos Xr
Versions 3.4, 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.5

Weakness classification

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