Security Notice - Statement about the Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Huawei Mate 7 Smart phones
- Initial Release Date: Jan 29, 2015
- Last Release Date: Dec 15, 2015
Huawei has learned from public sources that Huawei Mate 7 smart phones (versions MT7-TL10V100R001CHNC00B122SP06) have the privilege escalation vulnerability. Huawei has started an investigation immediately after learning about the vulnerability.
After the investigation, Huawei confirms that versions MT7-TL10V100R001CHNC00B122SP06 of Huawei Mate 7 smart phones are affected by the vulnerability, which is a vulnerability of the original Google Android vulnerability and numbered CVE-2014-7911.
Huawei has delivered Security Advisories and mitigation measures. Customers can get necessary support for product security vulnerabilities through Huawei local technical service. The link of the security advisories are:
http://www.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-414174.htm
2015-12-15 V1.2 FINAL
2015-02-11 V1.1 UPDATED Added the SA link
2015-01-29 V1.0 INITIAL
Huawei adheres to protecting the ultimate interests of users with best efforts and the principle of responsible disclosure and deal with product security issues through our response mechanism. Please report to Huawei PSIRT at psirt@huawei.com if you find any security vulnerability of Huawei products.
