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Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2017-17162

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

Huawei Secospace USG6600 V500R001C30SPC100, Secospace USG6600 V500R001C30SPC200, Secospace USG6600 V500R001C30SPC300, USG9500 V500R001C30SPC100, USG9500 V500R001C30SPC200, USG9500 V500R001C30SPC300 have a memory leak vulnerability due to memory don't be released when an local authenticated attacker execute special commands many times. An attacker could exploit it to cause memory leak, which may further lead to system exceptions.

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