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Resource Management Errors

CVE-2006-4775

High
7.8/10

Summary

The VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) feature in Cisco IOS 12.1(19) and CatOS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a VTP update with a revision value of 0x7FFFFFFF, which is incremented to 0x80000000 and is interpreted as a negative number in a signed context.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Resource management errors is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to improper management of system resources. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category can lead to unexpected software behavior, loss of access, file modification, sensitive information disclosure, system crash, denial of service, and code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published