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Security Advisory - Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20211020-01-outofwrite
  • Initial Release Date: Oct 20, 2021
  • Last Release Date: May 23, 2022

There is an out of bounds write vulnerability in some Huawei products. The vulnerability is caused by a function of a module that does not properly verify input parameter. Successful exploit could cause out of bounds write leading to a denial of service condition. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2021-34990)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-37129.

 

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-20211020-01-outofwrite-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

IPS Module

V500R005C00

V500R005C20SPC601

V500R005C20

NGFW Module

V500R005C00

V500R005C20SPC601

NIP6600

V500R005C00

V500R005C20SPC601

V500R005C20

S12700

V200R010C00SPC600

V200R019C10SPC500+V200R019SPH029

V200R011C10SPC500

V200R011C10SPC600

V200R013C00SPC500

V200R019C00SPC200

V200R019C00SPC500

V200R019C10SPC200

V200R020C00

V200R021C00SPC100+SPH010

V200R020C10

S7700

V200R010C00SPC600

V200R019C10SPC500+V200R019SPH029

V200R010C00SPC700

V200R011C10SPC500

V200R011C10SPC600

S9700

V200R010C00SPC600

S12700 V200R019C10SPC500+V200R019SPH029

V200R011C10SPC500

V200R011C10SPC600

USG9500

V500R005C00

V500R005C20SPC601

V500R005C20


Successful exploit could cause out of bounds write leading to a denial of service condition.


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

Base Score: 5.9 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Temporal Score: 5.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

An attacker could send a crafted message to the device.

Vulnerability details:

The device management function of Huawei data communication products has a buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability is caused by incorrect boundary verification when processing device interface management packets. An attacker who can log in to the device through HTTP can send malicious NETCONF packets to the device to trigger this vulnerability. Successful exploitation could result in device service exceptions.


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.


2022-05-23 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section

2021-10-20 V1.0 INITIAL


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