Vulnerability Bulletins |
Cisco Nexus 1000v Application Virtual Switch Cisco Discovery Protocol Packet Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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| Affected software | Cisco |
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A vulnerability in Cisco Discovery Protocol packet processing for the Cisco Nexus 1000v Application Virtual Switch (AVS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the ESXi hypervisor to crash and display a purple diagnostic screen, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of Cisco Discovery Protocol packets, which could result in a crash of the ESXi hypervisor due to an out-of-bound memory access. An attacker could More info: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160727-avs?vs_f=Cisco%20Security%20Advisory&vs_cat=Security%20Intelligence&vs_type=RSS&vs_p=Cisco%20Nexus%201000v%20Application%20Virtual%20Switch%20Cisco%20Discovery%20P |
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