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Security Advisory - Memory Leak Vulnerability in Some Huawei Network Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20171129-01-command
  • Initial Release Date:2017-11-29
  • Last Release Date:2017-11-29

Patch module of some Huawei products have a memory leak vulnerability. An authenticated attacker could execute special commands many times, the memory leaking happened, which would cause the device to reset finally. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-08051)
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-15315.
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-20171129-01-command-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

NIP6300

V500R001C20SPC100

Upgrade to V500R001C30SPC100

V500R001C20SPC100PWE

V500R001C20SPC300PWE

V500R001C20SPC200

Upgrade to V500R001C30SPC100

V500R001C20SPC200PWE

V500R001C20SPC300PWE

NIP6600

V500R001C20SPC100

Upgrade to V500R001C30SPC100

V500R001C20SPC100PWE

V500R001C20SPC300PWE

V500R001C20SPC200

Upgrade to V500R001C30SPC100

V500R001C20SPC200PWE

V500R001C20SPC300PWE

Secospace USG6300

V500R001C20SPC100

Upgrade to V500R001C30SPC100

V500R001C20SPC100PWE

V500R001C20SPC300PWE

V500R001C20SPC200

Upgrade to V500R001C30SPC100

V500R001C20SPC200PWE

V500R001C20SPC300PWE

Secospace USG6500

V500R001C20SPC100

Upgrade to V500R001C30SPC100

V500R001C20SPC100PWE

V500R001C20SPC300PWE

V500R001C20SPC200

Upgrade to V500R001C30SPC100

V500R001C20SPC200PWE

V500R001C20SPC300PWE


A successful exploit could cause the device to reset.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://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)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker has normal user permissions.
Vulnerability details:
An authenticated attacker could execute special commands many times, the memory leaking happened, which would cause the device to reset finally.
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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.
2017-11-29 V1.0 INITIAL

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