Security Advisory - Arbitrary Memory Read Write Vulnerability in Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170306-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Mar 06, 2017
- Last Release Date: Oct 15, 2018
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-17176.
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-20170306-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate 9 |
Versions earlier before MHA-AL00BC00B156 |
MHA-AL00BC00B156 |
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Versions earlier before MHA-CL00BC00B156 |
MHA-CL00BC00B156 |
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Versions earlier before MHA-DL00BC00B156 |
MHA-DL00BC00B156 |
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Versions earlier before MHA-TL00BC00B156 |
MHA-TL00BC00B156 |
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Mate 9 Pro |
Versions earlier before LON-AL00BC00B156 |
LON-AL00BC00B156 |
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Versions earlier before LON-CL00BC00B156 |
LON-CL00BC00B156 |
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Versions earlier before LON-DL00BC00B156 |
LON-DL00BC00B156 |
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Versions earlier before LON-TL00BC00B156 |
LON-TL00BC00B156 |
[1] Smart phones will receive a system update prompt. The vulnerabilities will be fixed after users install the update.
An attacker with the root privilege of the Android system could exploit this vulnerability to read and write memory data anywhere or execute arbitrary code in the TrustZone.
Base Score: 6.6 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker successfully tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
There is a arbitrary memory read/write vulnerability in the hardware security module of some Huawei smart phones due to the input parameters validation. An attacker with the root privilege of the Android system could exploit this vulnerability to read and write memory data anywhere or execute arbitrary code in the TrustZone.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2018-10-15 V1.1 UPDATED Assigned a CVE ID(CVE-2017-17176) to the vulnerability;
2017-03-06 V1.0 INITIAL
None
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