CVE-2015-6294 (GCVE-0-2015-6294)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-18 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:15
VLAI
Summary
Cisco IOS 15.2(3)E and earlier and IOS XE 3.6(2)E and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (functionality loss) via crafted Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) packets, aka Bug ID CSCuu25770.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
cisco CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 66/100 over 434 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033612 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2015-09-16 00:00
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