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Security Advisory-DoS Vulnerability in Eudemon8000E

  • SA No:Huawei-SA-20140127-01
  • Initial Release Date: Jan 27, 2014
  • Last Release Date: May 12, 2014

Huawei Eudemon8000E firewall allows users to log in to the device using Telnet or SSH. When an attacker sends to the device a mass of TCP packets with special structure, the logging process become slowly and users may be unable to log in to the device (HWPSIRT-2014-0101).

This Vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-3221.

 

Product name

Vulnerable Versions

Eudemon8000E

V200R001C01SPC800 and earlier versions.




When the attack occurs, users cannot or are difficult to log in to the device using Telnet or SSH

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. Prerequisite:

The attacker can send a large number of TCP packets to the device.

2. Attacking procedure:

The attacker grafts a large number of TCP packets with special structure and sends the packets to the device.

Upgrading version and upgrading date:

Product name

Solved version

Solved time

Eudemon8000E

V200R001C01SPC900

Released




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/security/psirt/report-vulnerabilities/index.htm.


This vulnerability is found by Huawei internal test engineer. The Huawei PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability described in this advisory.

For security problems about Huawei products and solutions, please contactPSIRT@huawei.com.

For general problems about Huawei products and solutions, please directly contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the configuration or technical assistance.


2014-05-12 V1.1 UPDATED add the CVE ID

2014-01-27 V1.0 INITIAL

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