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CVE-2015-7516 (GCVE-0-2015-7516)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-24 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:51
VLAI
Summary
ONOS before 1.5.0 when using the ifwd app allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and switch disconnect) by sending two Ethernet frames with ether_type Jumbo Frame (0x8870).
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-11-12 00:00
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