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Cisco UCS: CVE-2015-0718: Denial of service triggered by crafted TCP packets

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Cisco UCS: CVE-2015-0718: Denial of service triggered by crafted TCP packets

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/25/2018
Modified
05/02/2018

Description

Cisco NX-OS 4.0 through 6.1 on Nexus 1000V 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, and 7000 devices and Unified Computing System (UCS) platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (TCP stack reload) by sending crafted TCP packets to a device that has a TIME_WAIT TCP session, aka Bug ID CSCub70579.

Solution(s)

  • cisco-ucs-device-upgrade-2_2_2c

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