CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-5256

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 13, 2019 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Certain Huawei products (AP2000;IPS Module;NGFW Module;NIP6300;NIP6600;NIP6800;S5700;SVN5600;SVN5800;SVN5800-C;SeMG9811;Secospace AntiDDoS8000;Secospace USG6300;Secospace USG6500;Secospace USG6600;USG6000V;eSpace U1981) have a null pointer dereference vulnerability. The system dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted parameters. A successful exploit could cause a denial of service and the process reboot.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ap2000_firmware Huawei v200r005c30 (including) v200r005c30 (including)
Ap2000_firmware Huawei v200r006c10 (including) v200r006c10 (including)
Ap2000_firmware Huawei v200r006c20 (including) v200r006c20 (including)
Ap2000_firmware Huawei v200r007c10 (including) v200r007c10 (including)
Ap2000_firmware Huawei v200r007c20 (including) v200r007c20 (including)
Ap2000_firmware Huawei v200r008c00 (including) v200r008c00 (including)
Ap2000_firmware Huawei v200r008c10 (including) v200r008c10 (including)
Ap2000_firmware Huawei v200r009c00 (including) v200r009c00 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References