Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20191218-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2019-12-18
- Last Release Date: 2019-12-18
There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may intercept and tamper with the packet in the local area network (LAN) to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause the affected phone abnormal. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-09447)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5276.
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-20191218-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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ELLE-AL00B |
earlier versions than 9.1.0.222(C00E220R2P1) |
10.0.0.166(C00E66R1P11) |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can cause the affected phone abnormal.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.3 (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 4.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
Overall Score: 4.9
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker needs to access the local area network (LAN) where the device is located.
Vulnerability details:
There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may intercept and tamper with the packet in the local area network (LAN). Successful exploitation may cause the affected phone abnormal.
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.
2019-12-18 V1.0 INITIAL
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