Cisco warns miscreants are crippling IOS XR network gear over the internet with memory black-holes. No patch yet

In brief Cisco has warned hackers are crashing or crippling its networking kit out in the field by black-holing all available memory via specially crafted IGMP packets. To pull this off, miscreants are exploiting CVE-2020-3566, a vulnerability that can be abused by “an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust process memory of an affected device”

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