PT-2018-4405 · Atlassian · Floodlight Controller

Xuraylei · Published 2018-02-21 · Updated 2018-03-19 · CVE-2015-6569

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Atlassian Floodlight Controller versions prior to 1.2

Description A race condition in the LoadBalancer module allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a state manipulation attack, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and thread crash.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.2, update to version 1.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the LoadBalancer module to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Race Condition

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-6569

Affected Products

Floodlight Controller

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6569 · Security Note
• https://floodlight.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/floodlightcontroller/pages/24805419/Floodlight+v1.2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/floodlight/floodlight/pull/563 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/103132 · Note