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Security Advisory - Out-Of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20180131-01-sip
  • Initial Release Date: Jan 31, 2018
  • Last Release Date: Jan 31, 2018

Some Huawei products have an out-of-bounds read vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed Session Initiation Protocol(SIP) packets to the target device. Successful exploit could make the device read out of bounds and thus cause a service to be unavailable. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-11043)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17202.
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-20180131-01-sip-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

AR120-S

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR1200

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R007C01

V200R007C02

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR1200-S

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR150

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R007C01

V200R007C02

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR150-S

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R007C00

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR160

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R007C01

V200R007C02

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR200

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R007C01

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR200-S

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR2200

V200R006C10

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R007C00

V200R007C01

V200R007C02

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR2200-S

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR3200

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R006C11

V200R007C00

V200R007C01

V200R007C02

V200R008C00

V200R008C10

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

AR3600

V200R006C10

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R007C00

V200R007C01

V200R008C20

AR510

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

NetEngine16EX

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

SRG1300

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R007C02

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

SRG2300

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R007C02

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

SRG3300

V200R005C32

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC300

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C20

V200R008C30

Successful exploit could make the device read out of bounds and thus cause a server to be unavailable.
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 gains access to the device network.
Vulnerability details:
An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed Session Initiation Protocol(SIP) packets to the target device. Successful exploit could make the device read out of bounds and thus cause a server to be unavailable.

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.

2018-01-31 V1.0 INITIAL

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