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CVE-2011-0355

CVE information

Published

13 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.8/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:1000v_virtual_ethernet_module_\(vem\):4.0\(4
  Yes
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cpe:2.3:a:cisco:1000v_virtual_ethernet_module_\(vem\):4.0\(4
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:1000v_virtual_ethernet_module_\(vem\):4.0\(4
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:1000v_virtual_ethernet_module_\(vem\):4.0\(4
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:1000v_virtual_ethernet_module_\(vem\):4.0\(4
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-