Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in Multiple Huawei Devices

There is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in multiple Huawei devices. Due to the lack of input validation, a remote attacker may craft a malformed Resource Reservation Protocol(RSVP) packet and send it to the device, causing a few buffer overflows and occasional device restart. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-07017)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8786.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161228-01-rsvp-en