Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software EnergyWise Crafted Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team psirt at cisco.com
Wed Aug 6 16:06:42 UTC 2014


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Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software EnergyWise Crafted Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability

Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20140806-energywise

Revision 1.0

For Public Release 2014 August 6 16:00  UTC (GMT)
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Summary
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A vulnerability in the EnergyWise module of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected device.

The vulnerability is due to improper parsing of crafted EnergyWise packets destined to an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EnergyWise packet to be processed by an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of the affected device.


Cisco has released free software updates that address this vulnerability. 

There are no workarounds for this vulnerability.

This advisory is available at the following link:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20140806-energywise

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