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NTAP-20170815-0001 — CVE-1999-0016 Denial of Service Vulnerability in Data ONTAP

Published 2017-08-15 · Updated 2017-08-15 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20170815-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-1999-0016 · site index

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition to affected versions of Data ONTAP.

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP
Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode

Official fixes

Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode — vendor fix ↗

References

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-1999-0016 ↗

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.