Security Advisory-Memory Leak Vulnerability on USG products
- SA No:Huawei-SA-20141224-01-USG
- Initial Release Date: 2014-12-24
- Last Release Date: 2015-03-20
The HUAWEI USG9560/9520/9580 is a high-end 10-Gigabit Firewall. The USG9560/9520/9580 applies to Internet backbone networks, IP dedicated backbone networks, IP metropolitan area networks (MANs), Internet data center (IDC) egress. This security gateway provides multiple powerful and all-round security solutions with great flexibility.
An attacker can request a special web page to cause the memory leak of the MPU. When the memory is exhausted, the MPU restarts and active/standby main processing unit (MPU) switchover is triggered. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2014-1223)
This Vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-9697.
Currently, official fixes are available.
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Solved version |
|
USG9560/9520/9580 |
V300R001C00 |
V300R001C01SPC300 |
|
V300R001C01SPC100 |
Upgrade to V300R001C01SPC300 |
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause the memory leak of the MPU. When the memory is exhausted, the MPU restarts and active/standby MPU switchover is triggered.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Temporal Score: 4.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
Overall Score: 4.1
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
- The attacker can access the network.
Vulnerability details:
When the web module of the firewall receives a GET request for a special web page, the web module does not release the memory assigned for the request. When the memory is exhausted by requests for web pages that do not exist, the MPU restarts and the active/standby MPU switchover is triggered.
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2015-3-20 V1.1 UPDATED Summary
2012-12-24 V1.0 INITIAL
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