Security Advisory - Out-of-bounds Read Vulnerability in Gauss100 OLTP Database of Some Huawei Products

There is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Gauss100 OLTP database of some Huawei products due to the insufficient checks of the specific packet length. Attackers can construct invalid packets to attack the active and standby communication channels. Successful exploit of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to crash the database on the standby node. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-09046)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5289.

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-20190925-01-database-en