CVE-2023-4163 - Possible buffer overflow in portcfgfportbuffers in Brocade Fabric OS

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30 April 2024

29 August 2023

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MEDIUM

4.4 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2023-4163

Brocade Security Advisory ID

BSA-2023-2368

Component

CLI

 

 

Summary

In Brocade Fabric OS before v9.2.0a, a local authenticated privileged user can trigger a buffer overflow condition, leading to a kernel panic with large input to buffers in the portcfgfportbuffers command.

Products Affected

Note: All Brocade Fabric OS versions are affected.

Solution

The security update is provided in Brocade Fabric OS v9.2.0a, v9.1.1d, v8.2.3e and later releases.

Credit

The issue was discovered during internal penetration testing.

 Revision History

Version

Change

Date

1.0

Initial Publication

August 29, 2023

2.0

Update for Fabric OS v9.1.1d and changed Affects

April 11, 2024

2.1

update for FOX v8.2.3e

April 30, 2024

 

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