CVE-2009-5038

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco IOS versions prior to 15.0(1)XA

Description The issue is related to the handling of IRC traffic after an initial reload, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an attempted connection to a certain IRC server. This is due to a "corrupted magic value".

Recommendations For versions prior to 15.0(1)XA, update to version 15.0(1)XA or later to resolve the issue.