Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Inputhub Driver of Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180418-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2018-04-18
- Last Release Date: 2018-04-18
The inputhub driver of some Huawei mobile phones has a buffer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious APP and the APP may sends specific data to the inputhub driver to exploit this vulnerablity, successful exploit could cause the system reboot. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-10003)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17313.
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-20180418-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HUAWEI P9 Lite |
Versions earlier than VNS-L21C02B341 |
VNS-L21C02B341 |
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Versions earlier than VNS-L21C22B380 |
VNS-L21C22B380 |
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Versions earlier than VNS-L31C02B341 |
VNS-L31C02B341 |
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Versions earlier than VNS-L31C440B390 |
VNS-L31C440B390 |
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Versions earlier than VNS-L31C636B396 |
VNS-L31C636B396 |
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker has successfully tricked a user into installing a malicious APP.
Vulnerability details:
An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious APP and the APP may sends specific data to the inputhub driver to exploit this vulnerablity, successful exploit could cause the system reboot.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by Aravind Machiry. Huawei would like to thank Aravind Machiry for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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