CVE-2018-0155

A vulnerability in the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) offload implementation of Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a crash of the iosd process, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient error handling when the BFD header in a BFD packet is incomplete. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted BFD message to or across an affected switch. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a reload of the system. This vulnerability affects Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E (K5), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 7-E (K10), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 7L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 9-E (K10), Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches (K10), Catalyst 4900M Switch (K5), Catalyst 4948E Ethernet Switch (K5). Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc40729.

• CWE-388
• CWE-755

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103565Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040587Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-18-107-05Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180328-bfdVendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103565Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040587Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-18-107-05Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180328-bfdVendor Advisory
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-0155US Government Resource

Published

Mar 28, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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