Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in HIFI Driver of Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20161123-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Nov 23, 2016
- Last Release Date: Nov 23, 2016
The HIFI driver of some Huawei products has buffer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of a parameters check. An attacker can get ROOT privilege and send given parameter to driver to crash the system or execute arbitrary code. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-05220)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8774.
Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161123-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate 8 |
Versions before NXT-AL10C00B386 |
NXT-AL10C00B386[1] |
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Versions before NXT-CL00C92B386 |
NXT-CL00C92B386[1] |
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Versions before NXT-DL00C17B386 |
NXT-DL00C17B386[1] |
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Versions before NXT-TL00C01B386 |
NXT-TL00C01B386[1] |
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Mate S |
Versions before CRR-CL00C92B368 |
CRR-CL00C92B368[1] |
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Versions before CRR-CL20C92B368 |
CRR-CL20C92B368[1] |
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Versions before CRR-TL00C01B368 |
CRR-TL00C01B368[1] |
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Versions before CRR-UL00C00B368 |
CRR-UL00C00B368[1] |
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Versions before CRR-UL20C00B368 |
CRR-UL20C00B368[1] |
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P8 |
Versions before GRA-TL00C01B366 |
GRA-TL00C01B366[1] |
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Versions before GRA-CL00C92B366 |
GRA-CL00C92B366[1] |
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Versions before GRA-CL10C92B366 |
GRA-CL10C92B366[1] |
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Versions before GRA-UL00C00B366 |
GRA-UL00C00B366[1] |
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Versions before GRA-UL10C00B366 |
GRA-UL10C00B366[1] |
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P9 |
Versions before EVA-AL10C00B190 |
EVA-AL10C00B190[1] |
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Versions before EVA-DL10C00B190 |
EVA-DL10C00B190[1] |
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Versions before EVA-TL10C00B190 |
EVA-TL10C00B190[1] |
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Versions before EVA-CL10C00B190 |
EVA-CL10C00B190[1] |
[1] Mobile phones will receive a system update prompt. The vulnerabilities will be fixed after users install the update.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows attackers to crash the system or execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 6.7 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
The attacker gets the ROOT privilege on the smart phone.
2. Attacking procedure:
The HIFI driver of some Huawei products has buffer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of a parameters check. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to send given parameter to driver to crash the system or execute arbitrary code.
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 Zhao Jianqiang from Lab 0x031E of Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. Huawei would like to thank Zhao Jianqiang for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2016-11-23 V1.0 INITIAL
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