Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in Wi-Fi Driver of Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170623-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Jun 23, 2017
- Last Release Date: Jun 23, 2017
There is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Wi-Fi driver of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and the application can access invalid address of driver to crash the system. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-04153)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8143.
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-20170623-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
|
Honor 5C |
Versions earlier than NEM-L21C432B351 |
NEM-L21C432B351 |
| P9 Lite |
Versions earlier than VNS-L21C10B381 |
VNS-L21C10B381 |
The malicious application installed on smart phone can exploit this vulnerability to crash the system.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker successfully tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
There is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Wi-Fi driver of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and the application can access invalid address of driver to crash the system.
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, and the vulnerability was also reported by Yang Chengming of Alibaba Mobile Security Team. Huawei would like to thank Yang Chengming for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-06-23 V1.0 INITIAL
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