Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Driver of Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170426-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Apr 26, 2017
- Last Release Date: Apr 26, 2017
The camerafs driver of some Huawei products has buffer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of input validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has the system privilege of the Android system and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing a system crash or privilege escalation. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03002)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2716.
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-20170426-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate 9 |
Versions earlier than MHA-AL00BC00B173 |
MHA-AL00BC00B173 |
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows attackers to crash the system or escalate privilege.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
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)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has the system privilege of the Android system.
Vulnerability details:
The attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has the system privilege of the Android system and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing a system crash or privilege escalation.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
2017-04-26 V1.0 INITIAL
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