CVE-2016-8790: huawei cloudengine_12800_firmware

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-8790 is a medium (CVSS 5.7) vulnerability in huawei cloudengine_12800_firmware. EPSS estimates a 0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 02-04-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Huawei CloudEngine 5800 with software before V200R001C00SPC700, CloudEngine 6800 with software before V200R001C00SPC700, CloudEngine 7800 with software before V200R001C00SPC700, CloudEngine 8800 with software before V200R001C00SPC700, CloudEngine 12800 with software before V200R001C00SPC700 could allow the attacker to exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability by sending crafted packets to the affected system to cause a main control board reboot.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.