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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:14:56 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: David Jorm <david.jorm@...il.com>
Cc: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>, CVE ID Requests <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: DoS in ONOS when handling jumbo ethernet frames
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:19 AM, David Jorm <david.jorm@...il.com> wrote:
> It was found that ONOS would throw exceptions when handling jumbo ethernet
> frames. The exceptions were not caught and handled, so a remote
> unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to perform a denial-of-service
> attack against an ONOS system.
>
> To exploit this issue, the attacker must be able to send a jumbo ethernet
> frame to a switch controlled by ONOS. Only the connection between the
> controller and the switch generating the packet-in message of the malicious
> packet will be affected (disconnected). More details are available here:
>
> https://jira.onosproject.org/browse/ONOS-3349
>
> An advisory is now live with no CVE ID:
>
> https://wiki.onosproject.org/display/ONOS/Security+advisories
>
> Please assign a CVE ID to this issue. A request was sent to MITRE
> directly 9 days ago with no answer. We need a CVE ID within the next 24
> hours.
>
> Thanks
> David Jorm on behalf of the ONOS security response team
>
Adding Mitre to CC to make sure we don't end up with a duplicate.
Please use CVE-2015-7516 for this issue. Happy Thanksgiving all!
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Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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Red Hat Product Security contact: secalert@...hat.com
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