Cisco Issues Four Security Advisories

Cisco issued four, moderate-severity security notices over the weekend, informing users of vulnerabilities in the company’s Adaptive Security Appliance and IOS XR software, its unified computing system, and wireless LAN controllers. Cisco warned of a vulnerability CVE-2013-3470, affecting the...

CVE-2013-3470

CVE-2013-3470 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco IOS XR where the RIP Version 2 processor could crash due to insufficient input validation of crafted RIP packets. The issue is exploitable remotely by an unauthenticated attacker sending a specially crafted version-2 RIP packet to...