CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2015-4409 — Hikvision Ds-76Xxx Series Firmware security vulnerability
Medium
CVSS 6.8
Buffer overflow on Hikvision NVR DS-76xxNI-E1/2 and DS-77xxxNI-E4 devices before 3.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (service interruption) via a crafted HTTP request, aka the SDK issue.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.8 (2.0)
- Published
- 2017-03-13
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Affected products
- hikvision / ds-76xxx_series_firmware
- hikvision / ds-77xxx_series_firmware
Matched remediation archetype
Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption
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Check exposure
- Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
- Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
- Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.
Remediate safely
- Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
- Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
- Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.
Authoritative sources
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