Fixes how the daemon triggers error messages for packets it can't reassemble
30 Jul 2015 at 02:58, Richard ChirgwinBad error message handling has opened up Cisco's IOS-XE versions prior to 3.13S to a remote denial-of-service (DoS) attack.
The company's threat advisory hints that the exploit was brought to Cisco's attention by an independent researcher, since it states that "functional exploit code exists; however, the code is not known to be publicly available."
IOS XE is a Linux daemon version of the Borg's operating system that abstracts routing functions away from platform-specific interfaces.
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