Check Point Advisories

Cisco OSPF LSA Manipulation Denial of Service (CVE-2013-0149)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-2538
Date Published: 13 Aug 2013
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-0149
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in Multiple Cisco Products. The vulnerability is due to unproper validation of the Link State Advertisement (LSA) type 1 packets before performing operations on the LSA database. Successful exploitation may cause the server to routing disruption, resulting in a denial of service condition

Protection Overview

IPS will detect and block specialy crafted Link State Advertisement pckets that contain this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Cisco OSPF LSA Manipulation Denial of Service protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Cisco Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Cisco OSPF LSA Manipulation Denial of Service

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