Security Advisory - Memory Leak Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20161214-01-ldp
- Initial Release Date: Dec 14, 2016
- Last Release Date: Dec 14, 2016
Some Huawei products have a memory leak vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker may send specific Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) packets to the devices repeatly. Due to improper validation of some specific fields of the packet, the LDP processing module does not release the memory, resulting in memory leak. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-08013)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8782.
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-20161214-01-ldp-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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CloudEngine 12800 |
V100R003C00 |
Upgrade to V200R001C00SPC700 |
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V100R003C10 |
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V100R005C00 |
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V100R005C10 |
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V100R006C00 |
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause memory leak.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Temporal Score: 4.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
1. The attacker gains access to the network where the device resides.
Vulnerability details:
An unauthenticated attacker may send specific Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) packets to the devices repeatly. Due to improper validation of some specific fields of the packet, the LDP processing module does not release the memory, resulting in memory leak.
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.
2016-12-14 V1.0 INITIAL
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