CVE-2023-4163

Possible buffer overflow in portcfgfportbuffers in Brocade Fabric OS

State: Published
Severity: 4.4 Medium
Published: Aug 31, 2023
Updated: Jun 26, 2025
Reserved: Aug 4, 2023

Description

In Brocade Fabric OS before v9.2.0a, a local authenticated privileged user can trigger a buffer overflow condition, leading to a kernel panic with large input to buffers in the portcfgfportbuffers command.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	brocade

Weaknesses

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Brocade Fabric OSBrocade	Fabric OS before v9.2.0aAffected

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/22514
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0001/

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