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VMware Patches 'Hard-to-Exploit' DoS Vulnerability (Security Week)
2017-08-14 10:00

An update released by VMware for its NSX-V network virtualization solution patches an important denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability. The security hole, tracked as CVE-2017-4920, exists in the OSPF protocol implementation in NSX-V due to it not handling link-state advertisement (LSA) correctly. read more


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2017-12-05 CVE-2017-4920 Resource Exhaustion vulnerability in VMWare Nsx-V Edge
The implementation of the OSPF protocol in VMware NSX-V Edge 6.2.x prior to 6.2.8 and NSX-V Edge 6.3.x prior to 6.3.3 doesn't correctly handle the link-state advertisement (LSA).
network
high complexity
vmware CWE-400
5.9

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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Vmware 146 11 222 256 102 591