Cisco Nexus 7000 NX-OS series switches Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Cisco NX-OS 5.x
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 55600
Cve id: CVE-2012-3051

Cisco NX-OS is a data center-level operating system that represents a modular design, always-on and maintainability.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches running on a NX-OS have a remote denial of service vulnerability that can be exploited to cause a denial of service. Cisco Bug ID CSCtr44822. Affected Versions: Cisco NX-OS version 5.2 and other versions.

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Link: http://secunia.com/advisories/50671/
Http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/5_x/nx-os/release/notes/52_nx-os_release_note
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Cisco
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Cisco has released a Security Bulletin (52_nx-os_release_note) and corresponding patches for this purpose:

52_nx-os_release_note: Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Release Notes, Release 5.2

Link: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/5_x/nx-os/release/notes/52_nx-os_release_note