Cisco NX-OS: Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS ARP Packet Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2012-3051)
6
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
09/16/2012
07/25/2018
05/07/2018
05/07/2018
Description
Cisco NX-OS 5.2 and 6.1 on Nexus 7000 series switches allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash or packet loss) via a large number of ARP packets, aka Bug ID CSCtr44822.
Solution(s)
- update-nxos
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