Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CVE-2017-17317
Summary
Common Open Policy Service Protocol (COPS) module in Huawei USG6300 V100R001C10; V100R001C20; V100R001C30; V500R001C00; V500R001C20; V500R001C30; V500R001C50; Secospace USG6500 V100R001C10; V100R001C20; V100R001C30; V500R001C00; V500R001C20; V500R001C30; V500R001C50; Secospace USG6600 V100R001C00; V100R001C20; V100R001C30; V500R001C00; V500R001C20; V500R001C30; V500R001C50; TE30 V100R001C02; V100R001C10; V500R002C00; V600R006C00; TE40 V500R002C00; V600R006C00; TE50 V500R002C00; V600R006C00; TE60 V100R001C01; V100R001C10; V500R002C00; V600R006C00 has a buffer overflow vulnerability. An unauthenticated, remote attacker has to control the peer device and send specially crafted message to the affected products. Due to insufficient input validation, successful exploit may cause some services abnormal.
- HIGH
- NETWORK
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- NONE
- NONE
- LOW
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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Advisory Timeline
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