Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Some Huawei Mobile Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20210127-01-buffer
- Initial Release Date: 2021-01-27
- Last Release Date: 2021-01-27
Some Huawei products have a buffer overflow vulnerability. After obtaining the root permission, an attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause buffer overflow. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-43452)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-22301.
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-20210127-01-buffer-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HUAWEI Mate 30 |
10.0.0.203(C00E201R7P2) |
11.0.0.155(C00E150R7P11) |
An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause buffer overflow.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 6.7 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker have the root permission of the target phone.
Vulnerability details:
Some Huawei products have a buffer overflow vulnerability. After obtaining the root permission, an attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause buffer overflow.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a software update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2021-01-27 V1.0 INITIAL
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