Cisco NX-OS: Cisco NX-OS Software SNMP Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6260)
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
03/03/2016
07/25/2018
01/05/2017
03/06/2023
Description
Cisco NX-OS 7.1(1)N1(1) on Nexus 5500, 5600, and 6000 devices does not properly validate PDUs in SNMP packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SNMP application restart) via a crafted packet, aka Bug ID CSCut84645.
Solution(s)
- update-nxos
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