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Security Advisory - Denial of Service Vulnerability on Several Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20171129-01-cert
  • Initial Release Date: Nov 29, 2017
  • Last Release Date: Nov 29, 2017

There is a denial of service vulnerability on several products. The software decodes X.509 certificate in an improper way. A remote unauthenticated attacker could send a crafted X.509 certificate to the device. Successful exploit could result in a denial of service on the device. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-12087)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-15341.

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-20171129-01-cert-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

AR3200

V200R008C20

Upgrade to V200R009C00

V200R008C30

TE40

V600R006C00

V600R006C00SPC400

TE50

V600R006C00

V600R006C00SPC400

TE60

V600R006C00

V600R006C00SPC200

Successful exploit could result in a denial of service on the device.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Temporal Score: 7.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

The attacker accesses to the victim's network.

Vulnerability details:

The software decodes X.509 certificate in an improper way. A remote unauthenticated attacker could send a crafted X.509 certificate to the device. Successful exploit could result in a denial of service on the device.

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.

2017-11-29 V1.0 INITIAL

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