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Security Advisory - Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the IKEv2 Protocol Implementation of Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20171206-01-ikev2
  • Initial Release Date: Dec 06, 2017
  • Last Release Date: Apr 18, 2018

There have multiple vulnerabilities in the IKEv2 protocol on some Huawei products.

IKEv2 has an out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit it to craft special packets to trigger out-of-bounds memory write, which may further lead to system exceptions. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03101)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17152.

IKEv2 has a memory leak vulnerability due to memory release failure resulted from insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit it to cause memory leak, which may further lead to system exceptions. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03102)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17153.

IKEv2 has a DoS vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit it to cause unauthorized memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03103)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17154.

IKEv2 has an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability due to incompliance with the 4-byte alignment requirement imposed by the MIPS CPU. An attacker could exploit it to cause unauthorized memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03110)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17155.

IKEv2 has an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit it to craft special packets to trigger out-of-bounds memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03111)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17156.

IKEv2 has an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit it to craft special packets to trigger out-of-bounds memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03112)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17157.

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-20171206-01-ikev2-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

IPS Module

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC500 + V500R001SPH015

V500R001C20

NGFW Module

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R002C20SPC500 + V500R002SPH015

V500R001C20

NIP6300

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC500 + V500R001SPH015

V500R001C20

NIP6600

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC500 + V500R001SPH015

V500R001C20

Secospace USG6300

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC500 + V500R001SPH015

V500R001C20

Secospace USG6500

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC500 + V500R001SPH015

V500R001C20

Secospace USG6600

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC500 + V500R001SPH015

V500R001C20

USG9500

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC500 + V500R001SPH015

V500R001C20



HWPSIRT-2017-03101: 

An attacker could exploit it to craft special packets to trigger out-of-bounds memory write, which may further lead to system exceptions. 

HWPSIRT-2017-03102: 

An attacker could exploit it to cause memory leak, which may further lead to system exceptions. 

HWPSIRT-2017-03103: 

An attacker could exploit it to cause unauthorized memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions. 

HWPSIRT-2017-03110: 

An attacker could exploit it to cause unauthorized memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions.

HWPSIRT-2017-03111: 

An attacker could exploit it to craft special packets to trigger out-of-bounds memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions.

HWPSIRT-2017-03112: 

An attacker could exploit it to craft special packets to trigger out-of-bounds memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions.

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

HWPSIRT-2017-03101,HWPSIRT-2017-03102,HWPSIRT-2017-03103,HWPSIRT-2017-03110,HWPSIRT-2017-03111 and HWPSIRT-2017-03112:

Base Score: 3.7 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Temporal Score: 3.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

HWPSIRT-2017-03101: 

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

The attacker has access to the affected device and can craft special packets.

Vulnerability details:  

IKEv2 has an out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit it to craft special packets to trigger out-of-bounds memory write, which may further lead to system exceptions. 

HWPSIRT-2017-03102: 

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

The attacker has access to the affected device and can craft special packets. 

Vulnerability details:

IKEv2 has a memory leak vulnerability due to memory release failure resulted from insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit it to cause memory leak, which may further lead to system exceptions. 

HWPSIRT-2017-03103: 

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

The attacker has access to the affected device and can craft special packets. 

Vulnerability details:  

IKEv2 has a DoS vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit it to cause unauthorized memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions.

HWPSIRT-2017-03110: 

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

The attacker has access to the affected device and can craft special packets. 

Vulnerability details:

IKEv2 has an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability due to incompliance with the 4-byte alignment requirement imposed by the MIPS CPU. An attacker could exploit it to cause unauthorized memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions. 

HWPSIRT-2017-03111: 

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

The attacker has access to the affected device and can craft special packets. 

Vulnerability details:

IKEv2 has an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit it to craft special packets to trigger out-of-bounds memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions. 

HWPSIRT-2017-03112: 

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

The attacker has access to the affected device and can craft special packets. 

Vulnerability details:

IKEv2 has an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit it to craft special packets to trigger out-of-bounds memory access, which may further lead to system exceptions.

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.

These vulnerabilities were discovered by Huawei internal tester.

2018-04-18 V1.1 UPDATE Update the "Software Versions and Fixes"

2017-12-06 V1.0 INITIAL

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