Security Advisory - Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170725-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Jul 25, 2017
- Last Release Date: Jul 25, 2017
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-8144.
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-20170725-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Honor 5A |
The versions before CAM-L03C605B143CUSTC605D003 |
CAM-L03C605B143CUSTC605D003 |
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Honor 8 Lite |
The versions before Prague-L03C605B161 |
Prague-L03C605B161 |
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The versions before Prague-L23C605B160 |
Prague-L23C605B160 |
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Mate9 |
The versions before MHA-AL00C00B225 |
MHA-AL00C00B225 |
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Mate9 Pro |
The versions before LON-AL00C00B225 |
LON-AL00C00B225 |
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P10 |
The versions before VTR-AL00C00B167 |
Upgrade to VTR-AL00C00B167 |
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The versions before VTR-TL00C01B167 |
Upgrade to VTR-TL00C01B167 |
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P10 Plus |
The versions before VKY-AL00C00B167 |
Upgrade to VKY-AL00C00B167 |
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The versions before VKY-TL00C01B167 |
Upgrade to VKY-TL00C01B167 |
The attacker can rapidly drain the device battery by exploiting this vulnerability.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 3.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)Temporal Score: 3.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application, the application may turn on the device flash-light and rapidly drain the device battery.
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 Erez Yalon of Checkmarx. Huawei would like to thank Erez Yalon for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-07-25 V1.0 INITIAL
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