CVE-2023-4163

Summary

CVE-2023-4163 is a vulnerability affecting Brocade Fabric OS versions prior to 9.2.0a. A local, authenticated privileged user can exploit this issue by providing large input to certain buffers in the portcfgfportbuffers command. The consequence is a buffer overflow condition that results in a kernel panic. This vulnerability could potentially be leveraged to gain unintended system access or cause denial-of-service conditions. System administrators are advised to upgrade to a patched version of the software to mitigate the risk.

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