Resource exhaustion in Brocade Fabric OS - CVE-2017-6227

 

Resource exhaustion in Brocade Fabric OS - CVE-2017-6227

Published: February 12, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10448
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6227
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Brocade
Affected software:
Brocade Fabric OS

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause a DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper handling of Router Advertisement messages. An adjacent attacker can send specially crafted RA messages, consume excessive amounts of CPU resources and cause the system to hang.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-6227

Update to versions 7.4.2b, 8.1.2, 8.2.0.

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