Security Advisory - Input Validation Vulnerability in the Video0 Driver of Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160130-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Jan 30, 2016
- Last Release Date: Feb 03, 2016
There is an input validation vulnerability in Video0 driver of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and application can exploit the vulnerability to print stack memory content or crash the system when the application accesses invalid address. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-12004)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8682.
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-20160130-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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P8[1] |
GRA-UL00C00B230 and earlier versions |
GRA-UL00C00B350 |
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GRA-UL10C00B230 and earlier versions |
GRA-UL10C00B350 |
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GRA-TL00C01B230 and earlier versions |
GRA-TL00C01B350 |
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GRA-CL00C92B230 and earlier versions |
GRA-CL00C92B350 |
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GRA-CL10C92B230 and earlier versions |
GRA-CL10C92B350 |
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Mate S[1] |
CRR-TL00C01B153SP01 and earlier versions |
CRR-TL00C01B160SP01 |
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CRR-UL00C00B153 and earlier versions |
CRR-UL00C00B160 |
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CRR-CL00C92B153 and earlier versions |
CRR-CL00C92B161 |
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 4.7 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Temporal Score: 3.9 (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 stack information leak vulnerability in Video0 driver of some Huawei smart phones. It is not enough for an interface of this driver to checking incoming parameter, for which the application can use this interface to read any memory address. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and application can exploit the vulnerability to print stack memory content or crash the system when the application accesses invalid address.
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.
2016-01-30 V1.0 INITIAL
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