Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS ARP Packet Handling Denial of Service
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50671
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-09-19
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Nexus 7000 Series 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 parsing ARP packets
and can be exploited to crash the Adjmgr process or cause packets to
be dropped via an ARP packet flood destined to the device.
The vulnerability is reported in version 5.2. Other versions may also
be affected.
SOLUTION:
No official solution is currently available.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
CSCtr44822:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/5_x/nx-os/release/notes/52_nx-os_release_note.html#wp402884
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