CVE-2004-1663 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2004-1663?

CVE-2004-1663 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 20 Feb 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Engenio/LSI Logic storage controllers, as used in products such as Storagetek D280, and IBM DS4100 (formerly FastT 100) and Brocade SilkWorm Switches, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (freeze and possible data corruption) via crafted TCP packets.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1663?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Broadcom Fabric Operating System, Brocade Silkworm, Brocade Silkworm Fiber Channel Switch, Engenio Storage Controller, Ibm Ds4100, Storagetek D280.

How do I fix CVE-2004-1663?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-1663 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-2004-1663 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-1663 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Broadcom Fabric Operating System

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• CVE-2022-33186 Command injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27797 Hardcoded credentials in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-15371 Code injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8

All Broadcom Fabric Operating System vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4h7m-m3ch-jghg.