Security Advisory - E-mail Information Leak Vulnerability in Android System
- SA No:huawei-sa-20161214-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2016-12-14
- Last Release Date: 2017-03-01
The Security Bulletin describes an E-mail Information Leak Vulnerability in Android System discovered by Google (CVE-2016-3918). An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to smart phone to obtain information in the email.(Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-10020).
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-3918.
Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link: http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161214-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
| HiSTBAndroid | V500R001C01SPC010 |
Upgrade to V600R001C00CP0015 |
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P9 |
Versions earlier than EVA-AL10C00B195 |
EVA-AL10C00B195 |
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Versions earlier than EVA-CL10C00B195 |
EVA-CL10C00B195 |
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Versions earlier than EVA-DL10C00B195 |
EVA-DL10C00B195 |
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Versions earlier than EVA-TL10C00B195 |
EVA-TL10C00B195 |
Attackers can obtain information in the email through the malware installed on the affected smart phone.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
Attackers must trick users into installing the malware provided by the attackers.
2. Attacking procedure:
Attackers can obtain information in the email through the malware installed on the affected smart phone.
Smart phones that support automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was discovered by Google.
2017-03-01 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the affected product list and fixed version
2016-12-14 V1.0 INITIAL
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