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Security Advisory - Information Disclosure Vulnerability in the Synaptics Touchscreen Driver

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20171020-01-synaptics
  • Initial Release Date: 2017-10-20
  • Last Release Date: 2017-10-20

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen driver. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and it could enable to access data outside of its permission levels. And cause to the sensitive information leaks. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-08186)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-0650.

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-20171020-01-synaptics-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

CAM-AL00

Earlier than CAM-AL00C00B220 versions

CAM-AL00C00B220

FRD-L02

Earlier than FRD-L02C432B394 versions

Upgrade to FRD-L02C432B394

FRD-L04

Earlier than FRD-L04C567B388 versions

Upgrade to FRD-L04C567B388

Earlier than FRD-L04C605B131CUSTC605D004 versions

Upgrade to FRD-L04C605B131CUSTC605D004

FRD-L09

Earlier than FRD-L09C432B394 versions

Upgrade to FRD-L09C432B394

FRD-L14

Earlier than FRD-L14C567B388 versions

Upgrade to FRD-L14C567B388

FRD-L19

Earlier than FRD-L19C432B398 versions

Upgrade to FRD-L19C432B398

NTS-AL00

Earlier than NTS-AL00C00B539 versions

Upgrade to NTS-AL00C00B539

Victoria-AL00A

Earlier than Victoria-AL00AC00B167D versions

Upgrade to Victoria-AL00AC00B167D

Victoria-L29A

Earlier than Victoria-L29BC636B162 versions

Upgrade to Victoria-L29BC636B162

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information of the user, and cause to the information leaks.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 4.7 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Temporal Score: 4.4 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

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

Vulnerability details:

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen driver. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and it could enable to access data outside of its permission levels. And cause to the sensitive information leaks.

The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.

This vulnerability was disclosed by security researcher on Internet.

2017-10-20 V1.0 INITIAL

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