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Cisco IOS XE Software Catalyst 4500 Cisco Discovery Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published Mar 27, 2019

Description

A vulnerability in the Easy Virtual Switching System (VSS) of Cisco IOS XE Software on Catalyst 4500 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the switches to reload. The vulnerability is due to incomplete error handling when processing Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) packets used with the Easy Virtual Switching System. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted CDP packet. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Mar 27, 2019
Updated Nov 21, 2024
Reserved Dec 6, 2018
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Nov 21, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a