# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-20317"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-09-11T16:38:33.082Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-11T20:38:58.530Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-20317"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-20317.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-20317"
title: "Cisco IOS XR Software Layer 2 Services Denial of Service Vulnerability"
summary: "A vulnerability in the handling of specific Ethernet frames by Cisco IOS XR Software for various Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) platforms could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause critical priority packets to be dropped, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability is due to incorrect classification of certain types of Ethernet frames that are received on an interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specific types of Ethernet frames to or through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause control plane protocol relationships to fail, resulting in a DoS condition. For more information, see the  section of this advisory.\r\nCisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7.7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.8.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.7.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.9.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.8.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.8.22","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.10.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.7.21","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.9.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.9.21","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Cisco","product":"Cisco IOS XR Software","defaultStatus":"unknown"}]

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