TITLE:
AIX tcpdump BGP Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17029

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17029/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
AIX 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/213/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in AIX, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in tcpdump
when handling BGP packets. This can be exploited to cause it to go
into infinite loop via a specially crafted packet.

The vulnerability may be related to:
SA15634

The vulnerability has been reported in AIX 5.3.

SOLUTION:
Apply APAR IY77141.
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/pseries/aixfixes.html

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg1IY77141&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=all

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA15634:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15634/

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