Security Advisory - Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenSSL

There is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Openssl. Specific function in Openssl may crash during or after the TLS 1.3 handshake due to a NULL pointer dereference. Attacker may send crafted request packet to the target host service to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit may cause the affected service crash or deny of service. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-16617)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1967.

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-20200715-01-openssl-en