Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Emergdata Driver of Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170208-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Feb 08, 2017
- Last Release Date: Feb 08, 2017
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2696.
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-20170208-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Y6Ⅱ |
CAM-L21C10B130 and earlier versions |
CAM-L21C10B141 |
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CAM-L21C185B141 and earlier versions |
CAM-L21C185B150 |
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows attackers to crash the system or escalate user privilege.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 6.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker has the root privilege of the Android system and tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
The attacker with the root privilege of the Android system could tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to smart phone to crash the system or escalate privilege.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by ADLab of Venustech. Huawei would like to thank ADLab of Venustech for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-02-08 V1.0 INITIAL
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