Cisco NX-OS: Cisco Nexus 7000 and 7700 Series Switches Overlay Transport Virtualization Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2016-1453)
10
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
10/06/2016
07/25/2018
01/05/2017
03/06/2023
Description
Buffer overflow in the Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) GRE feature in Cisco NX-OS 5.0 through 7.3 on Nexus 7000 and 7700 devices allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long parameters in a packet header, aka Bug ID CSCuy95701.
Solution(s)
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