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Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.1E on the Catalyst 6500 and Cisco 7600 Supervisor Engine and MSFC
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Caveats
• A document that describes how the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) could be used to
perform a number of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the Transmission Control Protocol
(TCP) has been made publicly available. This document has been published through the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Draft process, and is entitled “ICMP Attacks Against TCP”
(draft-gont-tcpm-icmp-attacks-03.txt).
These attacks, which only affect sessions terminating or originating on a device itself, can be of
three types:
1. Attacks that use ICMP “hard” error messages.
2. Attacks that use ICMP “fragmentation needed and Don’t Fragment (DF) bit set” messages, also
known as Path Maximum Transmission Unit Discovery (PMTUD) attacks.
3. Attacks that use ICMP “source quench” messages.
Successful attacks may cause connection resets or reduction of throughput in existing connections,
depending on the attack type.
Multiple Cisco products are affected by the attacks described in this Internet draft.
Cisco has made free software available to address these vulnerabilities. In some cases there are
workarounds available to mitigate the effects of the vulnerability.
This advisory is posted at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050412-icmp.shtml.
The disclosure of these vulnerabilities is being coordinated by the National Infrastructure Security
Coordination Centre (NISCC), based in the United Kingdom. NISCC is working with multiple
vendors whose products are potentially affected. Its posting can be found at:
http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20050412-00303.pdf?lang=en.
This problem is resolved in Release 12.1(13)E16. (CSCed78149)
Resolved General Caveats in Release 12.1(13)E15
• A reload might occur when traffic enters a port configured with the switchport protocol ip auto
command. This problem is resolved in Release 12.1(13)E15. (CSCin77984)
• With the Response Time Reporter (RTR) feature configured, spurious accesses might occur. This
problem is resolved in Release 12.1(13)E15. (CSCdy56859)
• When multicast support is configured, a spurious memory access or a reload might occur. This
problem is resolved in Release 12.1(13)E15. (CSCdy85185)
• If there are more than 50 files on the flash card, access from CiscoView Device Manager (CVDM)
might cause a reload. This problem is resolved in Release 12.1(13)E15. (CSCef07965)
• While traffic is flowing, CPU utilization might increase to a very high level if you reconfigure an
EtherChannel from Layer 3 to Layer 2 and configure a Layer 3 VLAN interface for the
EtherChannel. This problem is resolved in Release 12.1(13)E15. (CSCee41100)
• Occasionally, these modules might lose the ability to communicate over the Ethernet Out of Band
Channel (EOBC) and reset:
– WS-X6416-GBIC
– WS-X6348-RJ-45
– WS-X6148-RJ-45
– WS-X6348-RJ-21
– WS-X6148-RJ-21
– WS-X6316-GE-TX