Summary

The Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a race condition in the AF_UNIX garbage collector due to improper handling of socket connections. This could allow an attacker to cause memory corruption.

Products Affected

• Brocade Fabric OS versions before 9.2.2a
• All versions of Brocade SANnav base OS (OVA deployment) before 2.3.1b and 2.4.0

Products Under Investigation

• Brocade ASCG base OS (OVA deployment) versions

Products Not Affected

• Brocade SANnav standard deployments are not affected by this vulnerability
  [VEX Justification: Vulnerable_code_cannot_be_contolled_by_adversary]
• Brocade ASCG standard deployments are not affected by this vulnerability
  [VEX Justification: Vulnerable_code_cannot_be_contolled_by_adversary]

Solution

• Security update provided in Brocade Fabric OS 9.2.2a
• Security update provided in Brocade SANnav base OS (OVA deployment) 2.3.1b
• SANnav base OS Security update also provided in the sannav_ova_8x_os OVA patch which can be applied to SANnav OVA releases starting with 2.3.0

Revision History

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