Cabletron Smartswitch Router 8000 2.x ARP denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Cabletron Smartswitch Router 8000 2.x (Router Operating System) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component ARP Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cabletron SmartSwitch Router (SSR) 8000 firmware 2.x can only handle 200 ARP requests per second allowing a denial of service attack to succeed with a flood of ARP requests exceeding that limit.

The weakness was shared 11/24/1999 with BindView as not defined advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at razor.bindview.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-1999-1548. The exploitation is known to be easy. Access to the local network is required for this attack. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (7770).

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: razor.bindview.com
Organization: BindView
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-1548 (🔍)
X-Force: 7770
Vulnerability Center: 5918 - DoS in Enterasys (Cabletron) SmartSwitch Router via ARP Flood, Medium
SecurityFocus: 821 - Cabletron SSR ARP Flood DoS Vulnerability

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Created: 06/22/2014 15:09
Changes: 06/22/2014 15:09 (59)
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