Description
The design of the Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP), as implemented on Cisco IOS 12.1, when using IRPAS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a router with the same IP address as the interface on which HSRP is running, which causes a loop.
References
- 20020605 Three possible DoS attacks against some IOS versions. mailing-list
- 4949 vdb-entry
- 20020606 Re: Three possible DoS attacks against some IOS versions. mailing-list
- cisco-ios-hsrp-loop-dos(9283) vdb-entry