Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Huawei Several Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160511-01-dns
- Initial Release Date: May 11, 2016
- Last Release Date: May 18, 2016
There is a vulnerability in several Huawei devices: USG series and NGFW Module.
These products have a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Smart DNS function. An attacker may craft a malformed packet with illegitimate parameters, leading to denial of service or the potential execution of arbitrary code. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-04006)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-4577.
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-20160511-01-dns-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
|
NGFW Module |
V500R001C00 |
Upgrade to V500R001C20SPC100 |
|
Secospace USG6300 |
V500R001C00 |
Upgrade to V500R001C20SPC100 |
|
Secospace USG6500 |
V500R001C00 |
Upgrade to V500R001C20SPC100 |
|
Secospace USG6600 |
V500R001C00 |
Upgrade to V500R001C20SPC100 |
|
USG9500 |
V500R001C00 |
Upgrade to V500R001C20SPC100 |
An attacker may exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malformed packet. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a Denial of Service or execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 6.8 (AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Temporal Score: 5.6 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
Prerequisite:
- The attacker gains access to the device network.
- The Smart DNS function is active.
Attacking procedure:
Since the system does not verify the parameters, the attacker may craft a malformed packet with illegitimate parameters in the Smart DNS function, leading to denial of service or the potential execution of arbitrary code.
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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
2016-05-18 V1.1 UPDATED Assigned a CVE ID to the vulnerability
2016-05-11 V1.0 INITIAL
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