BSA-2016-168

Brocade Fabric OS

2 more products

21622

21 December 2018

03 October 2016

Closed

High

7.5

N/A

CVE-2016-8203

Summary

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2016-168

Component : NetIron

Revision : 2.0: Final

A memory corruption in the IPsec code path of Brocade NetIron OS on Brocade MLXs 5.8.00 through 5.8.00e, 5.9.00 through 5.9.00bd, 6.0.00 and 6.0.00a images could allow attackers to cause a denial of service (line card reset) via certain constructed IPsec control packets.

Affected Products
Product Current Assessment
Brocade NetIron Impacted: All Brocade MLX Line Cards running NetIron 5.8.00 through 5.8.00, 5.9.00 through 5.9.00bd, 6.0.00, and 6.00a images.
Products Confirmed Not Vulnerable

Brocade NetIron CES/CER and/or any Brocade NetIron software version prior to 5.8.00 are not affected.

No Brocade Fibre Channel technology products from Broadcom are currently known to be affected by this vulnerability.
 

Solution

Brocade strongly recommends that all customers running the impacted version(s) install the patch.

Brocade has fixed the vulnerability described in this advisory in NetIron 5.8.00ec, 5.9.00be and 6.0.00ab and later releases. The patch releases have been posted to the MyBrocade web portal.

Workaround

There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Revision History

Version Change Date
1.0 Initial Publication October 03, 2016
2.0 Updated to cover Fiber Channel December 21, 2018