Security Advisory - Double Free Vulnerability in Flp Driver of Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20171206-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Dec 06, 2017
- Last Release Date: Dec 06, 2017
The Flp Driver of some Huawei smart phones has a double free vulnerability. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application which has a high privilege to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause denial of service (DoS) attack. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-08134)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-15330.
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-20171206-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Vicky-AL00A |
Vicky-AL00AC00B124D |
Vicky-AL00AC00B220 |
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Vicky-AL00AC00B157D |
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Vicky-AL00AC00B167 |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can cause denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.2 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 3.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker has successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious application which has a high privilege.
Vulnerability details:
The Flp Driver of some Huawei smart phones has a double free vulnerability. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application which has a high privilege to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause denial of service (DoS) attack.
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 Yonggang Guo of IceSword Lab, Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. Huawei would like to thank Yonggang Guo for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-12-06 V1.0 INITIAL
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