PT-1999-1781 · Cabletron · Cabletron Smartswitch Router

Published 1999-11-24 · Updated 2017-02-16 · CVE-1999-1548

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cabletron SmartSwitch Router (SSR) 8000 firmware versions 2.x

Description: The issue allows for a denial of service attack to succeed by flooding the system with ARP requests, exceeding the limit of 200 requests per second that the firmware can handle.

Recommendations: For firmware version 2.x, consider implementing rate limiting on ARP requests to prevent exceeding the handling limit of 200 requests per second.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-1999-1548

Affected Products

Cabletron Smartswitch Router

References · 3

• http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_Cabletron.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1548 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/821 · Note