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Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Huawei Firewall Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20161125-01-usg
  • Initial Release Date:2016-11-25
  • Last Release Date:2016-11-25

The security policy processing module of some Huawei firewall products have a buffer overflow vulnerability. An authenticated attacker may setup a specific security policy into the devices, causing buffer overflow and crash the system. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-06074)
This vulnerability has been assigned CVE ID: CVE-2016-8802.
Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link: 
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161125-01-usg-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Secospace USG6300

V500R001C20SPC100

V500R001C20SPC300

V500R001C20SPC101

V500R001C20SPC200

Secospace USG6500

V500R001C20SPC100

V500R001C20SPC300

V500R001C20SPC101

V500R001C20SPC200

Secospace USG6600

V500R001C20SPC100

V500R001C20SPC300

V500R001C20SPC101

V500R001C20SPC200

An authenticated attacker may setup a specific security policy into the devices, causing buffer overflow and crash the system.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (https://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 6.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) 

Temporal Score: 6.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:
The attacker can login the firewall system.
2. Attacking procedure:
The security policy processing module of some Huawei firewall products have a buffer overflow vulnerability. An authenticated attacker may setup a specific security policy into the devices, causing buffer overflow and crash the system.
None

Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.

This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2016-11-25 V1.0 INITIAL

None

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