CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2021-34174 — A vulnerability exists in Broadcom BCM4352 and BCM43684 chips

Medium CVSS 4.9

A vulnerability exists in Broadcom BCM4352 and BCM43684 chips. Any wireless router using BCM4352 and BCM43684 will be affected, such as ASUS AX6100. An attacker may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) to any device connected to BCM4352 or BCM43684 routers via an association or reassociation frame.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.9 (2.0)
Published
2021-07-14
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • broadcom / bcm4352_firmware
  • broadcom / bcm43684_firmware

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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