Security Advisory - Chrome V8 engine has a remote code execution vulnerability
- SA No:huawei-sa-20161228-01-badkernel
- Initial Release Date: 2016-12-28
- Last Release Date: 2016-12-28
Chrome V8 is a Google Chrome engine for parsing JavaScript. Chrome V8 v3.20 to v4.2 has a remote code execution vulnerability due to misspelling of exception name observe_accept_invalid into observe_invalid_accept in source code, leading to the leak of kMessages. Successful exploit of this vulnerability could cause arbitrary code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-10001)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6754.
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-20161228-01-badkernel-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HiDPTAndroid |
V300R001C00 |
Upgrade to V300R001C01SPC030 |
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HiSTBAndroid |
V600R003C00SPC010 |
V600R003C00SPC020 |
Successful exploit of this vulnerability could cause arbitrary code execution.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Temporal Score: 6.8 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
Chrome V8 version between v3.20 and v4.2.
Vulnerability details:
Chrome V8 is a Google Chrome engine for parsing JavaScript. Chrome V8 v3.20 to v4.2 has a remote code execution vulnerability due to misspelling of exception name observe_accept_invalid into observe_invalid_accept in source code, leading to the leak of kMessages. Successful exploit of this vulnerability could cause arbitrary code execution.
Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.
This vulnerability was discovered by Google.
2016-12-28 V1.0 INITIAL
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