CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2469
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
Cisco NX-OS 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 on Nexus 7000 series switches, when the High Availability (HA) policy is configured for Reset, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reset) via a malformed Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) packet, aka Bug IDs CSCtk34535 and CSCtk19132.
Affected configurations
• cisco nx-os 4.2
• cisco nx-os 5.0
• cisco nx-os 5.1
• cisco nx-os 5.2
• cisco nexus 7000
• cisco nexus 7000 10-slot
• cisco nexus 7000 18-slot
• cisco nexus 7000 9-slot
References
- http://www.4salesbyself.com/troubleshooting-random-nexus-reboots.aspx www.4salesbyself.com
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/5_x/nx-os/release/notes/52_nx-os_release_note.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027352 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.4salesbyself.com/troubleshooting-random-nexus-reboots.aspx www.4salesbyself.com
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/5_x/nx-os/release/notes/52_nx-os_release_note.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027352 www.securitytracker.com