CVE-2015-6394 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-6394?

CVE-2015-6394 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 5 Dec 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The kernel in Cisco NX-OS 5.2(9)N1(1) on Nexus 5000 devices allows local users to cause a denial of service (device crash) via crafted USB parameters, aka Bug ID CSCus89408.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6394?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Nx-Os.

How do I fix CVE-2015-6394?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-6394 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-2015-6394 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6394 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6wpx-w3qr-6xpj.