Description

It was found that the packet deserializers in ONOS would throw exceptions when handling jumbo frames. The exceptions were not caught and handled, which would result in the relevant switch being disconnected because an exception occurred in an I/O thread. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to perform a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by causing ONOS to disconnect switches.

Affected versions

ONOS 1.3.0 Drake is confirmed to be affected.

Patch commit(s)

https://gerrit.onosproject.org/#/c/6137/

This issue was reported by Kashyap Thimmaraju (Technische Universität Berlin & T-Labs Berlin), Liron Schiff (Tel Aviv University), and Dr. Stefan Schmid (Technische Universität Berlin & T-Labs Berlin).

Description

It was found that the packet deserializers in ONOS would throw exceptions when handling malformed, truncated or maliciously-crafted packets. The exceptions were not caught and handled, which would result in the relevant switch being disconnected because an exception occurred in an I/O thread. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to perform a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by causing ONOS to disconnect switches. See ONOS-605 for more details.

Affected versions

ONOS 1.0.0 Avocet is confirmed to be affected.

Patch commit(s)

https://gerrit.onosproject.org/#/c/2207/