Security News > 2017 > August > 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). | 7.1 |