7.8
CWE
399
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2011-0355

First published: Thu Feb 17 2011(Updated: )

Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) 4.0(4) SV1(1) through SV1(3b), as used in VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1 and ESXi 4.0 and 4.1, does not properly handle dropped packets, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (ESX or ESXi host OS crash) by sending an 802.1Q tagged packet over an access vEthernet port, aka Cisco Bug ID CSCtj17451.

Credit: ykramarz@cisco.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Cisco 1000v Virtual Ethernet Module \(vem\)=4.0\(4\)-sv1\(1\)
Cisco 1000v Virtual Ethernet Module \(vem\)=4.0\(4\)-sv1\(2\)
Cisco 1000v Virtual Ethernet Module \(vem\)=4.0\(4\)-sv1\(3\)
Cisco 1000v Virtual Ethernet Module \(vem\)=4.0\(4\)-sv1\(3a\)
Cisco 1000v Virtual Ethernet Module \(vem\)=4.0\(4\)-sv1\(3b\)
VMware ESX=4.0
VMware ESX=4.1
VMware ESXi=4.0
VMware ESXi=4.1

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