Alcatel OmniSwitch 7700/7800 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Alcatel OmniSwitch 7700/7800. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Performing a manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2004-2377. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists. It is suggested to use restrictive firewalling.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Alcatel OmniSwitch 7700/7800. This affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Alcatel OmniSwitch 7000 and 7800 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via certain network scans, as demonstrated using a Nessus port scan of ports 1 through 1024 with safe-checks disabled.

The bug was discovered 02/19/2004. The weakness was released 02/25/2004 by Michael Shekman as confirmed posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-2377 since 08/16/2005. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but an exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is shared for download at secunia.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 6 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at ind.alcatel.com.It is possible to mitigate the weakness by firewalling . The best possible mitigation is suggested to be applying a restrictive firewalling.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (15318), SecurityFocus (BID 9745†), OSVDB (4064†), Secunia (SA10981†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1009211†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Firewall
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Patch: ind.alcatel.com

Timelineinfo

02/19/2004 🔍
02/25/2004 +6 days 🔍
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02/26/2004 +1 days 🔍
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03/01/2004 +3 days 🔍
12/31/2004 +305 days 🔍
08/16/2005 +228 days 🔍
06/27/2019 +5063 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Michael Shekman
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-2377 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-2377
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-531
X-Force: 15318 - Alcatel OmniSwitch Nessus scan can create denial of service, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 9745 - Alcatel OmniSwitch 7000 Series Security Scan Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 10981 - Alcatel OmniSwitch 7000 Series Unspecified Denial of Service Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 4064 - Alcatel OmniSwitch 7000 Series Unspecified DoS
SecurityTracker: 1009211

Entryinfo

Created: 03/01/2004 10:00
Updated: 06/27/2019 18:50
Changes: 03/01/2004 10:00 (77), 06/27/2019 18:50 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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