cisco-sa-20161102-n9kapic

A vulnerability in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Platform Leaf Switches for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of a type of Layer 2 control plane traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted traffic to a host behind a leaf switch. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition on the affected device. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability.