Security Advisory - Information Leak Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20171213-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Dec 13, 2017
- Last Release Date: Dec 13, 2017
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-17140.
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-20171213-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
|
Enjoy 5s |
The versions before TAG-AL00C92B170 |
TAG-AL00C92B170 |
|
Y6 Pro |
The versions before TIT-L01C576B121 |
TIT-L01C576B121 |
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
Some Huawei smartphones have an information leak vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the application can read some sensitive information in kernel memory, which may cause sensitive information leak.
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 Mateusz Fruba from MWR Labs. Huawei would like to thank Mateusz Fruba for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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