Cisco IOS Data-link Switching Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Cisco IOS Data-link Switching Denial Of Service Vulnerability

CISCO IOS Data-link Switching (DLSw) is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.

Only network appliances that have the affected service enabled are vulnerable to this issue. To exploit this issue, attackers must be able to connect to the affected service.

Attackers can exploit this issue to cause a reload of the affected service, effectively denying further service to legitimate users.

This issue affects all CISCO routers using Cisco IOS Software versions 11.0 through 12.4.

This issue is being tracked by the Cisco Bug ID: CSCsf28840