CVE-2015-4324: cisco nx-os

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-4324 is a medium (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability in cisco nx-os. EPSS estimates a 1.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 19-08-2015
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Buffer overflow in Cisco NX-OS on Nexus 1000V devices for VMware vSphere 7.3(0)ZN(0.81), Nexus 3000 devices 7.3(0)ZN(0.81), Nexus 4000 devices 4.1(2)E1(1c), Nexus 7000 devices 7.2(0)N1(0.1), and Nexus 9000 devices 7.3(0)ZN(0.81) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IGMP process restart) via a malformed IGMPv3 packet that is mishandled during memory allocation, aka Bug IDs CSCuv69713, CSCuv69717, CSCuv69723, CSCuv69732, and CSCuv48908.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.