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>> Alaxala AX Series BGP UPDATE Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Alaxala AX Series BGP UPDATE Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1407
CVE ID : CVE-2007-6372 - CVE-2008-2171
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-02
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A vulnerability has been identified in Alaxala AX Series, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing specially crafted BGP UPDATE messages, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a vulnerable device to drop sessions, leading to routing instability (route flapping).
Affected Products
Alaxala AX Series
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1407
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MIMG-79UV2A
Credits
Vulnerability reported by US-CERT.
ChangeLog
2008-05-02 : Initial release
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