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It has been reported that invalid requests to the telnet service on a Cisco Optical Transport Platform system may result in the resetting of TCC+, XTC, TCCi, and TSC control cards. This could allow an attacker to cause an interruption of network service, and could be prolonged to act as a denial of service. This condition was reportedly reproduced with the Nessus scanner.

It has been reported that invalid requests to the telnet service on a Cisco Optical Transport Platform system may result in the resetting of TCC+, XTC, TCCi, and TSC control cards. This could allow an attacker to cause an interruption of network service, and could be prolonged to act as a denial of service. This condition was reportedly reproduced with the Nessus scanner.