Security Advisory - Double Free Vulnerability on Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20190130-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Jan 30, 2019
- Last Release Date: Jan 02, 2020
There is a double free vulnerability on certain driver of smartphones. An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application, which makes multiple processes to operate the same resource at the same time. Successful exploit could cause a denial of service condition. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-11019)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5219.
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-20190130-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate10 |
Versions earlier than ALP-AL00B 9.0.0.181(C00E87R2P20T8) |
ALP-AL00B 9.0.0.181(C00E87R2P20T8) |
Successful exploit could cause a denial of service condition.
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:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 4.4 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application, which makes multiple processes to operate the same resource at the same time. Successful exploit could cause a denial of service condition.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2019-01-30 V1.0 INITIAL
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