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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2012-6570

High
10/10

Summary

The HTTP module in the (1) Branch Intelligent Management System (BIMS) and (2) web management components on Huawei AR routers and S2000, S3000, S3500, S3900, S5100, S5600, S7800, and S8500 switches does not check whether HTTP data is longer than the value of the Content-Length field, which allows remote HTTP servers to conduct heap-based buffer overflow attacks and execute arbitrary code via a crafted response.

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  • NETWORK
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  • COMPLETE
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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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