Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in Huawei S Series Switches
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160330-01-switch
- Initial Release Date: Mar 30, 2016
- Last Release Date: Mar 30, 2016
Multiple models of Huawei S series switches have a DoS vulnerability. When an attacker controls or impersonates a server connected to a switch, the attacker can send malicious attack packets to the switch to cause it to restart and make it unavailable. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-12022)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-3678.
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-20160330-01-switch-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Quidway S9700 |
V200R003C00SPC500 |
V200R003SPH012 |
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Quidway S5700 |
V200R003C00SPC300 |
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Quidway S5300 |
V200R003C00SPC300 |
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Quidway S9300 |
V200R003C00SPC500 |
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Quidway S7700 |
V200R003C00SPC300 |
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V200R003C00SPC500 |
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 5.4 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Temporal Score: 4.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
The attacker controls or impersonates a server connected to the switch, and gains access to the switch.
2. Attacking procedure:
The attacker sends malicious attack packets to the target switch via a server controlled or impersonated by the attacker. The target switch will restart when parsing the attack packets.
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.
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