Cisco IOS Protocol Translation Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2013-1147 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The Protocol Translation (PT) functionality in Cisco IOS 12.3 through 12.4 and 15.0 through 15.3, when one-step port-23 translation or a Telnet-to-PAD ruleset is configured, does not properly validate TCP connection information, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via an attempted connection to a PT resource, aka Bug ID CSCtz35999.

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