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Security Advisory - Input Check Vulnerability in Huawei Smart Phone

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20160104-02-smartphone
  • Initial Release Date: Jan 04, 2016
  • Last Release Date: Jan 04, 2016

There is a vulnerability in a Huawei smart phone that does not validate input parameter. The attacker tricks the user to install a malicious application to obtain system or camera privilege and then can exploit the vulnerability to make the product system panic. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-11027)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8305.

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-20160104-02-smartphone-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Sophia-L10

Versions earlier than P7-L10C900B852

P7-L10C900B852


The attacker can exploit this vulnerability to make the product system panic.


The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).

Base Score: 4.0 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Temporal Score: 3.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


1 Prerequisite:

The attacker successfully tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart.

2 Attacking procedure:

The attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application to obtain the system or camera privilege on the device. Attacker can exploit the vulnerability to make the product system panic.


1. Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities/index.htm


This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by Xiao Peng of Alibaba Mobile Security Team. Huawei would like to thank Xiao Peng for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.


2016-01-04 V1.0 INITIAL

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