cisco-sa-20180502-iosxr

Cisco IOS XR Software netconf Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the netconf interface of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of malformed requests processed by the netconf process. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious requests to the affected software. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the targeted process to restart, resulting in a DoS condition on the affected system. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180502-iosxr ["https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180502-iosxr"]