Security Advisory - TCP Connection Hijack Vulnerability
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160907-01-tcp
- Initial Release Date: 2016-09-07
- Last Release Date: 2017-07-05
There is a vulnerability in the implementation of the RFC 5961, due to the improper determination of the rate of challenge ACK responses by the global rate limit feature. Successful exploit could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to reset or hijack into a TCP connections between two systems, resulting in a DoS condition. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-08060)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-5696.
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-20160907-01-tcp-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Hi3521A |
V100R001C01SPC020 |
V100R001C01SPC050 |
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Hi3531A |
V100R001C01SPC010 |
V100R001C01SPC040 |
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Hi3536 |
V100R001C01SPC010 |
V100R001C01SPC060 |
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V100R001C01SPC030 |
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HiDPTAndroid |
V200R001C01 |
V200R001C01SPC120 |
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V300R001C00 |
V300R001C01SPC022 |
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Huawei solutions for SAP HANA |
V100R001C01SPC103 and earlier versions |
SUSE Patch |
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OceanStor 18500 V3 |
V300R003C10SPC100 |
Upgrade to V300R003C20 |
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OceanStor 18800 V3 |
V300R003C10SPC100 |
Upgrade to V300R003C20 |
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OceanStor 2800 V3 |
V300R001C00SPH201 |
Upgrade to V300R003C20 |
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OceanStor 5500 V3 |
V300R003C10SPC100 |
Upgrade to V300R003C20 |
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OceanStor 5600 V3 |
V300R003C10SPC100 |
Upgrade to V300R003C20 |
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OceanStor 5800 V3 |
V300R003C10SPC100 |
Upgrade to V300R003C20 |
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OceanStor 6800 V3 |
V300R003C10SPC100 |
Upgrade to V300R003C20 |
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OceanStor 9000 |
V100R001C30 |
Upgrade to V300R005C00SPC170 |
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V300R005C00 |
V300R005C00SPC170 |
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RH1288 V3 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC620 |
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RH1288A V2 |
V100R002C00 |
V100R002C00SPC706 |
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RH2288 V3 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC622 |
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RH2288A V2 |
V100R002C00 |
V100R002C00SPC706 |
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RH2288H V3 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC523 |
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RH5885 V3 |
V100R003C00 |
Upgrade to V100R003C10SPC109 |
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RH5885H V3 |
V100R003C10 |
V100R003C10SPC105 |
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RH8100 V3 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC213 |
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X6800 |
V100R003C00 |
V100R003C00SPC611 |
Successful exploit could allow an attacker to reset or hijack into a TCP connection.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 5.8 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Temporal Score: 4.8 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
The attacker has accessed to the network of the affected device;
2. Attacking procedure:
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending spoofed packets to an affected device. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to reset or hijack into a TCP connection between two systems, resulting in a DoS condition.
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 Yue Cao form the University of California, Riverside.
2017-07-05 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the affected product list and fixed version
2017-01-25 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the affected product list and fixed version
2016-09-07 V1.0 INITIAL
None
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