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Security Advisory - ICMPv6 DoS Vulnerability in Huawei Switches

  • SA No:Huawei-SA-20160113-02-Switch
  • Initial Release Date: Jan 13, 2016
  • Last Release Date: Jan 13, 2016

Multiple Huawei switches improperly release memory for ICMPv6 packets of a specific type. After the switch receives a specially crafted ICMPv6 packet, memory leak occurs, causing the switch to restart if the allocated memory is exhausted. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-11034)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8676.

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-20160113-02-switch-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

S5300EI/ S5300SI/ S5310HI/ S6300EI/ S2350EI/ S5300LI

V200R001C00

V200R001SPH018

V200R002C00

Upgrade to V200R003C00
+V200R003SPH011

V200R003C00

V200R003SPH011

S9300/ S7700/ S9700

V200R001C00

V200R001SPH023

V200R002C00

Upgrade to V200R003C00
+V200R003SPH011

V200R003C00

V200R003SPH011

S2300/ S3300

V100R006C05

V100R006SPH022


An attacker may exploit this vulnerability to launch DoS attacks against the device.

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)

1. Prerequisites:

The attacker can access to the network where the device resides.

2. Attacking procedure:

The attacker crafts special ICMPv6 packets and sends them to the device, and then a memory leak will be triggered on the device. The device will restart if the allocated memory is exhausted.

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/index.htm

This vulnerability was reported by Huawei internal tester.

2016-01-13 V1.0 INITIAL
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