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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2017-17146

High
7.8/10

Summary

Huawei DP300 V500R002C00 have a buffer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of validation. An authenticated local attacker can craft specific XML files to the affected products and parse this file, which result in DoS attacks or remote code execution on the device.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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