Security Advisory

CVE-2011-0355

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-02-17 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 21:51:08
Assigner cisco
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.