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Security Advisory - Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Driver of Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20161012-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date:2016-10-12
- Last Release Date:2017-03-22
These vulnerabilities have been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8759 and CVE-2016-8761.
There is a heap overflow vulnerability in touthscreen driver. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and the application can send given parameter to touthscreen driver to crash the system or escalate user privilege. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-08057)
This vulnerability has been assigned CVE ID: CVE-2016-8760.
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-20161012-01-smartphone-en
Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
P9 | Versions before EVA-AL10C00B192 | EVA-AL10C00B192 |
Honor 6 |
Versions before H60-L02_6.10.1 |
H60-L02_6.10.1 |
P9 Plus | Versions before VIE-AL10BC00B356 |
VIE-AL10BC00B356 |
Base Score: 6.2 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker successfully tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone.
2. Attacking procedure:
An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can send given parameter to the driver to crash the system or escalate user privilege.
Mobile phones will receive a system update prompt. The vulnerabilities will be fixed after users install the update.
2016-12-12 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the information of affected products and fixed version
2016-10-20 V1.1 UPDATED Add the CVE-ID
2016-10-12 V1.0 INITIAL
None
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