back to article Poison ping pong prompts patch from Cisco

Cisco admins, it's your weekly patch notice. The patch that gave us our headline is in NX-OS software, which is vulnerable to malicious pong (response to ping) packets. If the pong packet tries to egress both a FabricPath port and a non-FabricPath port, the software tries to free the same area of memory twice. “An exploit …

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