7.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2009-0627

Published: 08/09/2009 Updated: 09/09/2009
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 694
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS prior to 4.0(1a)N2(1), when running on Nexus 5000 platforms, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an unspecified "sequence of TCP packets" related to "TCP State manipulation," possibly related to separate attacks against CVE-2008-4609.

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Multiple Cisco products are affected by denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities that manipulate the state of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections By manipulating the state of a TCP connection, an attacker could force the TCP connection to remain in a long-lived state, possibly indefinitely If enough TCP connections are forced into a lo ...