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NTAP-20160217-0002 — CVE-2015-7547 GNU C Library (glibc) Vulnerability in Multiple NetApp Products
Published 2016-02-17 · Updated 2019-05-31 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20160217-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: E-Series / SANtricity · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · ONTAP · OnCommand family · Other NetApp products · StorageGRID | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to arbitrary code execution.
Affected products
- E-Series SANtricity Storage Manager
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above
- OnCommand Balance
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg)
- OnCommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP
- SnapProtect
- StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
Official fixes
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault) — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault) — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault) — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg) — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg) — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg) — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg) — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Balance — vendor fix ↗
References
- https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2016/02/cve-2015-7547-glibc-getaddrinfo-stack.html ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7547 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/articles/2161461 ↗
- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-7547 ↗
What to do
- Check the affected products listed above against the official advisory's affected-versions table — that is where the exact ONTAP 9 release, ONTAP tool, or management product versions are named.
- If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
- If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
- Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.
Related reading
- Common ONTAP problems (FAQ) — plain-language symptoms and fixes
- ONTAP security hardening — baseline lockdown guidance
- Ransomware protection on ONTAP — SnapLock, SnapMirror vaulting, Anomaly Detection
- ONTAP error messages index — EMS/WAFL/NFS/SnapMirror messages
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2016