Security Advisory - Resource Management Vulnerability in Huawei Servers
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160824-01-server
- Initial Release Date: 2016-08-24
- Last Release Date: 2016-08-24
Some Huawei servers have a resource management vulnerability in the iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller). A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust iBMC resources and cause a denial of service. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-05251)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6900.
Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160824-01-server-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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RH1288 V3 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC613 |
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RH2288 V3 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC617 |
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RH2288H V3 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC515 |
|
RH5885 V3 |
V100R003C01 |
V100R003C10SPC102 |
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XH620 V3 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC610 |
|
XH622 V3 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC610 |
|
XH628 V3 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC610 |
A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust iBMC resources and cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 1.7 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Temporal Score: 1.4 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
The attacker could access local shell of the device.
2. Attacking procedure:
A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to create countless processes, exhausting iBMC resources and causing a denial of service.
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.
2016-08-24 V1.0 INITIAL
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