Denial of Service Vulnerability in Brocade Fibre Channel SAN Products
CVE-2017-6227

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Status
Brocade Fabric Os
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 February 2018

What is CVE-2017-6227?

This vulnerability resides in the IPv6 stack of Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products, which allows an attacker to send specially crafted Router Advertisement (RA) messages. When the targeted system receives these messages, it may lead to denial of service conditions, including significant CPU consumption and potential device hang. As a result, the affected Brocade devices could become unresponsive, disrupting normal operations and access to network resources.

Affected Version(s)

Brocade FABRIC OS all versions before 7.4.2b, 8.1.2 and 8.2.0

References

https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Adjacent Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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