CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2016-6894 — Arista Dcs-7050T Eos Software security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8

Arista EOS 4.15 before 4.15.8M, 4.16 before 4.16.7M, and 4.17 before 4.17.0F on DCS-7050 series devices allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reboot) by sending crafted packets to the control plane.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (2.0)
Published
2017-01-04
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Affected products

  • arista / dcs-7050t_eos_software
  • arista / dcs-7050q_eos_software
  • arista / dcs-7050s_eos_software

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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