Security Advisory - DOS Vulnerability in Video Driver of Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160921-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Sep 21, 2016
- Last Release Date: Sep 21, 2016
There is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the video driver of some Huawei products. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can send given parameter to video driver to reboot the system. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-08046)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8279.
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-20160921-01-smartphone-en|
Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate S[1] |
Versions earlier than CRR-TL00C01B362 |
CRR-TL00C01B362 |
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Versions earlier than CRR-UL20C00B362 |
CRR-UL20C00B362 |
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Versions earlier than CRR-CL00C92B362 |
CRR-CL00C92B362 |
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Versions earlier than CRR-CL20C92B362 |
CRR-CL20C92B362 |
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P8[1] |
Versions earlier than GRA-TL00C01B366 |
GRA-TL00C01B366 |
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Versions earlier than GRA-UL00C00B366 |
GRA-UL00C00B366 |
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Versions earlier than GRA-UL10C00B366 |
GRA-UL10C00B366 |
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Versions earlier than GRA-CL00C92B366 |
GRA-CL00C92B366 |
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Honor 6/ Honor 6 Plus |
Versions earlier than 6.9.16 |
6.9.16[2] |
[1] Mobile phones will receive a system update prompt. The vulnerabilities will be fixed after users install the update.
[2] The product user who submits the upgrade application in huawei club website (https://www.wenjuan.com/s/YBNzIj/) will receive a system update prompt, install the update can fix the vulnerability.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability allows attackers to reboot the system.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 4.0 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Temporal Score: 3.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
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 video driver to reboot the system.
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.
2016-09-21 V1.0 INITIAL
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