McDATA E/OS Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:14475

Info

McDATA E/OS Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 14475
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 04 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 04 2005 12:00AM
Credit: This issue was reported by the vendor.
Vulnerable: McDATA Sphereon Fabric Switch 4500
McDATA Sphereon Fabric Switch 4300
McDATA Intrepid Director Switch 6140
McDATA Intrepid Director Switch 6064
McDATA E/OS
Not Vulnerable: McDATA E/OS 7.0 1.00
McDATA E/OS 6.0 .0

Discussion

McDATA E/OS Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

McDATA Sphereon 4300, and 4500 Fabric Switches, Intrepid 6064, and 6140 Director Switches are susceptible to a remote denial of service vulnerability when running E/OS versions prior to 6.0.0. This issue is due to the affected devices failing to properly handle network broadcast storms.

Hosts utilizing the SAN for storage may loose complete access to the attached storage.

This vulnerability allows attackers to simultaneously deny storage service to potentially numerous servers connected to a SAN.

Versions of E/OS prior to 6.0.0 are affected by this vulnerability.

Exploit / POC

McDATA E/OS Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

McDATA E/OS Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released version 6.0.0 of E/OS to address this issue. Users of affected packages should contact the vendor for further information on obtaining fixes.

Sun has released Sun Alert ID 101833, along with a patch to address this issue. Please see the referenced alert for further information.


McDATA E/OS

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McDATA E/OS Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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