Security Advisory - Two Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi Driver of Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160520-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: May 20, 2016
- Last Release Date: May 20, 2016
Wi-Fi driver of some Huawei products have two buffer overflow vulnerabilities due to the lack of a parameters check. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can send given parameter to Wi-Fi driver to crash the system or escalate user privilege. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-03020 and HWPSIRT-2016-03021)
The vulnerability HWPSIRT-2016-03020 has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-3680, the vulnerability HWPSIRT-2016-03021 has been assigned CVE ID: CVE-2016-3681.
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-20160520-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate 8 |
Versions before NXT-AL10C00B182 |
NXT-AL10C00B182 |
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Versions before NXT-CL00C92B182 |
NXT-CL00C92B182 |
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Versions before NXT-DL00C17B182 |
NXT-DL00C17B182 |
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Versions before NXT-TL00C01B182 |
NXT-TL00C01B182 |
[1] Mobile phones will receive a system update prompt. The vulnerabilities will be fixed after users install the update.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
HWPSIRT-2016-03020 and HWPSIRT-2016-03021
Base Score: 6.2 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (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:
Wi-Fi driver of some Huawei products have two buffer overflow vulnerabilities due to the lack of a parameters check. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can send given parameter to Wi-Fi driver to crash the system or escalate user privilege.
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.htm
These vulnerabilities were reported to Huawei PSIRT by Yang Chengming, Yang Chao, You Ning, Xiao Peng and Song Yang of Alibaba Mobile Security Team. Huawei would like to thank Yang Chengming, Yang Chao, You Ning, Xiao Peng and Song Yang for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2016-05-20 V1.0 INITIAL
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