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Security Advisory - QEMU Out-of-bound Read and Write Vulnerability in Huawei Product

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200930-01-qemu
  • Initial Release Date: 2020-09-30
  • Last Release Date: 2021-03-24

An out-of-bound read and write access vulnerability was found in the USB emulator of the QEMU. It occurs while processing USB packets from a guest. Attackers can use this vulnerability to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host. This can compromise normal service of the affected product. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-61105) This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-14364.

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-20200930-01-qemu-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

FusionCompute

6.3.0

6.5.1.CP5

6.3.1

6.5.0

6.5.1

6.5.1.SPC1

8.0.1

8.0.0.SPC1

8.0.RC2

V100R006C00

6.5.1.CP5

V100R006C10

V100R006C10RC1

V100R006C10RC2

V100R006C10SPC100

V100R006C10SPC106

V100R006C10SPH105

V100R006C10U10

V100R006C10U20

V100R007C00

FusionSphere OpenStack

8.0.0

8.0.2

8.0.1

NFV_FusionSphere

6.5.1.SPC23

6.5.1.CP010

8.0.0.SPC10

8.0.0.SPC12

OceanStor 5300 V3

V300R006C00

V300R006C60SPH005

V300R006C01

V300R006C10

V300R006C20

V300R006C30

V300R006C50

V300R006C60

OceanStor 5500 V3

V300R006C00

V300R006C60SPH005

V300R006C01

V300R006C10

V300R006C20

V300R006C30

V300R006C50

V300R006C60

OceanStor 5600 V3

V300R006C00

V300R006C60SPH005

V300R006C01

V300R006C10

V300R006C20

V300R006C30

V300R006C50

V300R006C60

OceanStor 5800 V3

V300R006C00

V300R006C60SPH005

V300R006C01

V300R006C10

V300R006C20

V300R006C30

V300R006C50

V300R006C60

eCNS280_TD

V100R005C00

V100R005C10SPC650

V100R005C10

eSE620X vESS

V100R001C10SPC200

V100R001C20SPC302

V100R001C20SPC200



Attackers can use this vulnerability to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host.

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

Base Score: 5.0 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Temporal Score: 4.7 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

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

Attackers have guest access to the affected product.

Vulnerability details:

It occurs while processing USB packets from a guest. Attackers can use this vulnerability to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host. This can compromise normal service of the affected product.

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 discovered by a researcher of Qihoo 360 Inc.


2021-03-24 V1.7 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section; 

2020-12-30 V1.6 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2020-12-02 V1.5 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2020-11-25 V1.4 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2020-11-11 V1.3 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2020-10-21 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2020-10-09 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section; Updated the information in "Temporary Fixes";

2020-09-30 V1.0 INITIAL

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