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Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2017-15349

High
7.5/10

Summary

Huawei CloudEngine 12800 V100R003C00, V100R005C00, V100R005C10, V100R006C00,CloudEngine 5800 V100R003C00, V100R005C00, V100R005C10, V100R006C00,CloudEngine 6800 V100R003C00, V100R005C00, V100R005C10, V100R006C00,CloudEngine 7800 V100R003C00, V100R005C00, V100R005C10, V100R006C00 have a memory leak vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker may send specific Resource ReServation Protocol (RSVP) packets to the affected products. Due to not release the memory to handle the packets, successful exploit will result in memory leak of the affected products and lead to a DoS condition.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-772 - Missing Release Of Resource After Effective Lifetime

'Missing release of resource after effective lifetime' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't sufficiently release a resource (e.g. memory, CPU, disk space, etc.) after it is used. If not addressed, attackers can launch a denial of service attack (by allocating a resource and not releasing it).

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published