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Security Advisory - Memory Leak Vulnerability in Huawei Switches

  • SA No:Huawei-SA-20160113-03-Switch
  • Initial Release Date: Jan 13, 2016
  • Last Release Date: Jan 13, 2016

When serving as an HTTPS or SFTP server, the Huawei switch stores a user's SSL session information in the memory even after the user logs out. If the memory occupied by the SSL session information exceeds the allocated amount, memory leak occurs, causing the device to restart. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-11035)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8677.

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-20160113-03-switch-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

S5300EI/ S5300SI/ S5310HI/ S6300EI

V200R003C00

V200R003SPH011

V200R005C00

V200R005SPH008

S2350EI/ S5300LI

V200R003C00

V200R003SPH011

V200R005C00

V200R005SPH008

V200R006C00

V200R006SPH002

S9300/ S7700/ S9700

V200R003C00

V200R003SPH011

V200R005C00

V200R005SPH009

V200R006C00

V200R006SPH003

S5720HI/ S5720EI

V200R006C00

V200R006SPH002

S2300/ S3300

V100R006C05

V100R006SPH022



An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to exhaust the allocated memory on the HTTPS or SFTP server, causing the device to restart.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).

Base Score: 4.0 ( AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Temporal Score: 3.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisites:

The attacker can log in to the HTTPS or SFTP server.

2. Attacking procedure:

The attacker logs in to and out of the HTTPS or SFTP server multiple times. If the memory occupied by the SSL session information exceeds the allocated memory size, memory leak occurs, leading to the reboot of the device.

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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