Security Advisory - Improper Resource Management Vulnerability on Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20171220-03-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2017-12-20
- Last Release Date: 2017-12-20
There is an improper resource management vulnerability on Huawei smartphones. The software does not properly manage the resource when do device register operation. An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application, successful exploit could cause certain service unavailable. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-08144)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17327.
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-20171220-03-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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MHA-AL00A |
MHA-AL00AC00B125 |
Upgrade to MHA-AL00BC00B231 |
Successful exploit could cause certain service unavailable.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 2.0 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Temporal Score: 1.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application.
Vulnerability details:
The software does not properly manage the resource when do device register operation. An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application, successful exploit could cause certain service unavailable.
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 reported to Huawei PSIRT by He Yao of Baidu X-Lab. Huawei would like to thank He Yao for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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