Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in Graphics Driver of Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:Huawei-SA-20160113-01-SmartPhone
- Initial Release Date: Jan 13, 2016
- Last Release Date: Jan 13, 2016
There is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Graphics driver of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and the application can make semaphore deadlock issue, which causes the system to crash. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-12015)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1496.
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-20160113-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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P8[1] |
GRA-TL00C01B220 and earlier versions |
GRA-TL00C01B230 |
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GRA-CL00C92B220 and earlier versions |
GRA-CL00C92B230 |
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GRA-CL10C92B220 and earlier versions |
GRA-CL10C92B230 |
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GRA-UL00C00B220 and earlier versions |
GRA-UL00C00B230 |
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GRA-UL10C00B220 and earlier versions |
GRA-UL10C00B230 |
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 phone.
2. Attacking procedure:
There is a DoS vulnerability in Graphics driver of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and the application can make semaphore deadlock issue, which causes the system to crash.
1. The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
2. 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.htmNone
Huawei adheres to protecting the ultimate interests of users with best efforts and the principle of responsible disclosure and deal with product security issues through our response mechanism. Please report to Huawei PSIRT at psirt@huawei.com if you find any security vulnerability of Huawei products.
