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CVE-2011-0355

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
17/02/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:1000v_virtual_ethernet_module_\(vem\):4.0\(4\):sv1\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:1000v_virtual_ethernet_module_\(vem\):4.0\(4\):sv1\(2\):*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:1000v_virtual_ethernet_module_\(vem\):4.0\(4\):sv1\(3\):*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:1000v_virtual_ethernet_module_\(vem\):4.0\(4\):sv1\(3a\):*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:1000v_virtual_ethernet_module_\(vem\):4.0\(4\):sv1\(3b\):*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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