CVE-2015-0718 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0718?

CVE-2015-0718 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 3 Mar 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Cisco NX-OS 4.0 through 6.1 on Nexus 1000V 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, and 7000 devices and Unified Computing System (UCS) platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (TCP stack reload) by sending crafted TCP packets to a device that has a TIME_WAIT TCP session, aka Bug ID CSCub70579.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0718?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Cisco Nx-Os, Cisco Unified Computing System, Netgear Jr6150 Firmware, Samsung X14j Firmware, Sun Opensolaris, Zyxel Gs1900-10hp Firmware and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0718?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-0718 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-0718 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0718 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Cisco Nx-Os vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-858m-ch9v-jg28.