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CVE-2016-8773 — Huawei S12700 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

Huawei S5300 with software V200R003C00, V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00; S5700 with software V200R001C00, V200R002C00, V200R003C00, V200R005C00, V200R005C03, V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00; S6300 with software V200R003C00, V200R005C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00; S6700 with software V200R001C00, V200R001C01, V200R002C00, V200R003C00, V200R005C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00; S7700 with software V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00; S9300 with software V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00; S9700 with software V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00; and S12700 with software V200R007C00, V200R007C01, V200R008C00, V200R009C00 allow the attacker to cause a denial of service condition by sending malformed MPLS packets.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.0)
Published
2017-04-02
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Affected products

  • huawei / s12700_firmware / v200r007c00
  • huawei / s12700_firmware / v200r007c01
  • huawei / s12700_firmware / v200r008c00
  • huawei / s12700_firmware / v200r009c00
  • huawei / s5300_firmware / v200r003c00
  • huawei / s5300_firmware / v200r007c00

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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