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TITLE:
Hitachi GR Series BGP UPDATE Message Processing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30028

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30028/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Hitachi GR4000 Series Gigabit Routers
http://secunia.com/product/5131/
Hitachi GR2000 Series Gigabit Routers
http://secunia.com/product/5129/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing BGP
UPDATE messages and can be exploited to cause BGP session flapping
via specially crafted BGP messages.

SOLUTION:
Restrict network access on affected systems.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported via US-CERT.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
US-CERT VU#929656:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/929656

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