Security Advisory - Defense Mechanism Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei USG Products

There is a defense mechanism bypass vulnerability in Huawei USG products. Successful exploit could allow an attacker to bypass the anti-DDoS module of the USGs to send massive HTTP packets, possibly causing a denial of service condition on the backend server. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-07050)

This vulnerability has been assigned CVE ID: CVE-2016-8798.

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-20161026-01-usg-en