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Security Advisory - Input Validation Vulnerability in the Video0 Driver of Huawei Smart Phones

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20160130-01-smartphone
  • Initial Release Date: 2016-01-30
  • Last Release Date: 2016-02-03

There is an input validation vulnerability in Video0 driver of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and application can exploit the vulnerability to print stack memory content or crash the system when the application accesses invalid address. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-12004)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8682.

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-20160130-01-smartphone-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

P8[1]

GRA-UL00C00B230 and earlier versions

GRA-UL00C00B350

GRA-UL10C00B230 and earlier versions

GRA-UL10C00B350

GRA-TL00C01B230 and earlier versions

GRA-TL00C01B350

GRA-CL00C92B230 and earlier versions

GRA-CL00C92B350

GRA-CL10C92B230 and earlier versions

GRA-CL10C92B350

Mate S[1]

CRR-TL00C01B153SP01 and earlier versions

CRR-TL00C01B160SP01

CRR-UL00C00B153 and earlier versions

CRR-UL00C00B160

CRR-CL00C92B153 and earlier versions

CRR-CL00C92B161

 

[1] Mobile phones will receive a system update prompt. The vulnerability will be fixed after users install the update.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability allows attackers to print stack memory content or crash the system when the application tries to print too much information.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).

Base Score: 4.7 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)

Temporal Score: 3.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:

The attacker successfully tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone.

2. Attacking procedure:

There is a stack information leak vulnerability in Video0 driver of some Huawei smart phones. It is not enough for an interface of this driver to checking incoming parameter, for which the application can use this interface to read any memory address. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and application can exploit the vulnerability to print stack memory content or crash the system when the application accesses invalid address.
1. Mobile phones that support automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
2. Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.


This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by Yang Chengming and You Ning of Alibaba Mobile Security Team. Huawei would like to thank Yang Chengming and You Ning for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.

2016-02-03 V1.1 FINAL updated information of "Software Versions and Fixes"
2016-01-30 V1.0 INITIAL

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