Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 8, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-6227
CVE-2017-6227
Description
A vulnerability in the IPv6 stack on Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) versions before 7.4.2b, 8.1.2 and 8.2.0 could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and device hang) condition by sending crafted Router Advertisement (RA) messages to a targeted system.
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Affected products
3- Range: <7.4.2b, <8.1.2, <8.2.0
- Brocade Communications Systems, Inc./Brocade FABRIC OSv5Range: all versions before 7.4.2b, 8.1.2 and 8.2.0
Patches
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