CVE-2021-22341

There is a memory leak vulnerability in Huawei products. A resource management weakness exists in a module. Attackers with high privilege can exploit this vulnerability by performing some operations. This can lead to memory leak. Affected product versions include:IPS Module V500R005C00SPC100,V500R005C00SPC200;NGFW Module V500R005C00SPC100,V500R005C00SPC200;NIP6300 V500R005C00SPC100,V500R005C10SPC200;NIP6600 V500R005C00SPC100,V500R005C00SPC200;Secospace USG6300 V500R005C00SPC100,V500R005C00SPC200;Secospace USG6500 V500R005C00SPC100,V500R005C10SPC200;Secospace USG6600 V500R005C00SPC100,V500R005C00SPC200.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
• When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
• To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

• https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20210506-01-memleak-en