Security Advisory - Memory Leak Vulnerability on Several Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180704-01-firewall
- Initial Release Date: Jul 04, 2018
- Last Release Date: Jul 04, 2018
There is a memory leak vulnerability on several products. The software does not release allocated memory properly when processing Protal questionnaire. A remote attacker could send a lot questionnaires to the device, successful exploit could cause the device to reboot since running out of memory. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-07145)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-7994.
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-20180704-01-firewall-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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IPS Module |
V500R001C50 |
Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC300 |
|
NGFW Module |
V500R001C50 |
Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC300 |
|
V500R002C10 |
Upgrade to V500R002C20SPC300 |
|
|
NIP6300 |
V500R001C50 |
Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC300 |
|
NIP6600 |
V500R001C50 |
Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC300 |
|
NIP6800 |
V500R001C50 |
Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC300 |
|
Secospace USG6600 |
V500R001C50 |
Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC300 |
|
USG9500 |
V500R001C50 |
Upgrade to V500R001C60SPC300 |
Successful exploit could cause the device to reboot since running out of memory.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.9 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 5.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker passes the IKE authentication.
Vulnerability details:
The software does not release allocated memory properly when processing Protal questionnaire. A remote attacker could send a lot questionnaires to the device, successful exploit could cause the device to reboot since running out of memory.
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.
2018-07-04 V1.0 INITIAL
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