Summary 

c-ares is vulnerable to memory corruption due to improper parsing of local configuration files. This could allow a local attacker with access to such files to cause a denial-of-service (DoS), or potentially leverage to obtain sensitive information from memory.

Products Affected

Brocade ASCG before 3.2.0

Products Confirmed Not Affected

• Brocade Fabric OS
  [Vex Status Code: Component_not_present]
• Brocade SANnav
  [VEX Justification: Vulnerable_code_cannot_be_contolled_by_adversary]

Solution

Security update provided in Brocade ASCG 3.2.0

Revision History

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