Privilege escalation

Cisco ONS 15454 controller cards with software 9.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service card reset via a TCP FIN attack that triggers file-descriptor exhaustion and a failure to open a CAL pipe, aka Bug ID CSCug97348...

CVE-2014-2140

Cisco ONS 15454 Controller Cards (software 9.6 and earlier) are affected by CVE-2014-2140. A remote attacker can trigger a FIN attack that exhausts file descriptors, preventing opening a CAL pipe and causing a card reset (DoS) per Bug CSCug97348. Cisco advisory Cisco-SA-20140408-CVE-2014-2140 not...