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Security Advisory - E-mail Information Leak Vulnerability in Android System

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20161214-01-smartphone
  • Initial Release Date: Dec 14, 2016
  • Last Release Date: Mar 01, 2017

The Security Bulletin describes an E-mail Information Leak Vulnerability in Android System discovered by Google (CVE-2016-3918). An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to smart phone to obtain information in the email.(Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-10020).

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-3918.

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-20161214-01-smartphone-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

HiSTBAndroid  V500R001C01SPC010
Upgrade to V600R001C00CP0015

P9

Versions earlier than EVA-AL10C00B195

EVA-AL10C00B195

Versions earlier than EVA-CL10C00B195

EVA-CL10C00B195

Versions earlier than EVA-DL10C00B195

EVA-DL10C00B195

Versions earlier than EVA-TL10C00B195

EVA-TL10C00B195

Attackers can obtain information in the email through the malware installed on the affected smart phone.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).

Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:

Attackers must trick users into installing the malware provided by the attackers.

2. Attacking procedure:

Attackers can obtain information in the email through the malware installed on the affected smart phone.

Smart phones that support automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.

This vulnerability was discovered by Google.

2017-03-01 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the affected product list and fixed version
2016-12-14 V1.0 INITIAL

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