Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Reserved VLAN Number (CVE-2015-6295)

Cisco NX-OS 6.12I34 and 7.03I11 on Nexus 9000 N9K devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or control-plane instability or trigger unintended traffic forwarding via a Layer 2 packet with a reserved VLAN number, aka Bug ID CSCuw13560. This plugin only works with...

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Reserved VLAN Number Vulnerability (Cisco-SA-20150916-CVE-2015-6295)

A vulnerability in the handling of incoming Layer 2 packets tagged with a Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch N9K reserved VLAN number could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a partial denial of service DoS condition due to increased CPU utilization and possible control plane...

CVE-2015-6295

CVE-2015-6295 affects Cisco NX-OS running on Nexus 9000 series: 6.1(2)I3(4) and 7.0(3)I1(1). The vulnerability stems from handling of Layer 2 packets tagged with a reserved VLAN number, due to a lack of validation, which could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to cause a partial DoS via ...