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Cisco NX-OS: Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switch ICMP Record Route Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6398)

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Cisco NX-OS: Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode Switch ICMP Record Route Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6398)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/05/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Cisco Nexus 9000 Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Mode switches with software before 11.0(1c) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via an IPv4 ICMP packet with the IP Record Route option, aka Bug ID CSCuq57512.

Solution(s)

  • update-nxos

References

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