CVE-1999-1548 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service on Cabletron SmartSwitch Routers by flooding them with ARP requests exceeding the 200 per second limit.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-1999-1548?
CVE-1999-1548 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 12 Sep 2001. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1548?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cabletron Smartswitch Router 8000 Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-1999-1548?
No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1548 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-1999-1548 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1548 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gv2c-5jh2-xgwq.