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Cisco NX-OS: Cisco Products IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Crafted Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2016-1409)

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Cisco NX-OS: Cisco Products IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Crafted Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2016-1409)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/05/2017
Modified
01/30/2023

Description

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS XE 2.1 through 3.17S, IOS XR 2.0.0 through 5.3.2, and NX-OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet-processing outage) via crafted ND messages, aka Bug ID CSCuz66542, as exploited in the wild in May 2016.

Solution(s)

  • update-nxos

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