Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180905-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Sep 05, 2018
- Last Release Date: Sep 05, 2018
There is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application to exploit this vulnerability. Due to insufficient verification of the parameter, successful exploitation can cause the smartphone black screen until restarting the phone. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-05123)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-7906.
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-20180905-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Leland-AL00 |
8.0.0.114(C636) |
Upgrade to 8.0.0.116(C636) |
|
Leland-AL00A |
8.0.0.171(C00) |
Upgrade to 8.0.0.178(C00) |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can cause the smartphone black screen until restarting the phone.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (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.
Vulnerability details:
There is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. An unauthenticated, local attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application to exploit this vulnerability. Due to insufficient verification of the parameter, successful exploitation can cause the smartphone black screen until restarting the phone.
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 WangIc of future-sec and security researcher Zhang Qing. Huawei would like to thank WangIc and Zhang Qing for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2018-09-05 V1.0 INITIAL
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