National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0355

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: cisco-nexus-packets-dos(65217)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/65217

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0315

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0315

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0314

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0314

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0002.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0002.html

External Source: BID

Name: 46247

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46247

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20110208 VMSA-2011-0002 Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM updates address denial of service in VMware ESX/ESXi

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/516259/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 70837

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/70837

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/sw/4_0_4_s_v_1_3_c/release/notes/n1000v_rn.html

Hyperlink:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/sw/4_0_4_s_v_1_3_c/release/notes/n1000v_rn.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025030

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1025030

External Source: SREASON

Name: 8090

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8090

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43084

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43084

External Source: MLIST

Name: [security-announce] 20110207 VMSA-2011-0002 Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM updates address denial of service in VMware ESX/ESXi

Hyperlink:http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2011/000118.html