Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch Products HTTP Header Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	30652
Class:	Boundary Condition Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-4383
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Aug 06 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:25PM
Credit:	Deral Heiland
Vulnerable:	Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch OS9000 Series Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch OS7000 Series Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch OS6850 Series Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch OS6800 Series Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch OS6600 Series
Not Vulnerable:

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch Products HTTP Header Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch products are prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because they fail to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data.

An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected software. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition.

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch Products HTTP Header Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch Products HTTP Header Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released fixes. Please see the references for more information.

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch Products HTTP Header Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

References:

• Alcatel-Lucent Homepage (Alcatel-Lucent)
  
• Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch Series (Alcatel-Lucent)
  
• Layered Defense Research Advisory: Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch products, Stack Buf ([email protected])
  
• Stack based buffer overflow in OmniSwitch (Alcatel-Lucent)