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TITLE:
Cisco MDS NX-OS FCIP Packet Decompression Denial of Service
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50254

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-08-14

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco NX-OS, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing FCIP
headers while decompressing a packet and can be exploited to cause a
crash via a specially crafted FCIP packet.

The vulnerability is reported in Cisco NX-OS versions prior to 5.2(2)
running on Cisco MDS 9000.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.2(2).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=26617
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/sw/5_2/release/notes/nx-os/mds_nxos_rel_notes_522.html

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