Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in the Boot Loaders of Huawei Mobile Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170302-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Mar 02, 2017
- Last Release Date: Dec 01, 2017
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-2729.
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-20170302-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Honor 5A |
Versions earlier than CAM-TL00C01B193 |
CAM-TL00C01B193 |
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Versions earlier than CAM-TL00HC00B193 |
CAM-TL00HC00B193 |
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Versions earlier than CAM-UL00C00B193 |
CAM-UL00C00B193 |
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P8 Lite |
Versions earlier than ALE-L02C635B568 |
ALE-L02C635B568 |
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Versions earlier than ALE-L21C10B541 |
ALE-L21C10B541 |
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Versions earlier than ALE-L21C185B568 |
ALE-L21C185B568 |
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Versions earlier than ALE-L21C432B596 |
ALE-L21C432B596 |
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Versions earlier than ALE-L21C464B595 |
ALE-L21C464B595 |
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Versions earlier than ALE-L21C636B568 |
ALE-L21C636B568 |
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Versions earlier than ALE-L23C605B535 |
ALE-L23C605B535 |
Successful exploit could cause continuous system reboot or arbitrary code execution.
Base Score: 6.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker has gained the root privilege of an Android system and successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious APP.
Vulnerability details:
An attacker with the root privilege of an Android system may trick a user into installing a malicious APP. The APP can modify specific data to cause buffer overflow in the next system reboot, causing continuous system reboot or arbitrary code execution.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by Aravind, Machiry. Huawei would like to thank Aravind, Machiry for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-12-01 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;
2017-03-02 V1.0 INITIAL
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