Security Advisory - Two DoS Vulnerabilities in Call Module of Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170725-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Jul 25, 2017
- Last Release Date: Jul 25, 2017
The two vulnerabilities have been assigned two CVE IDs: CVE-2017-8145 and CVE-2017-8146.
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-20170725-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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P10 |
The versions before VTR-AL00C00B167 |
Upgrade to VTR-AL00C00B167 |
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The versions before VTR-TL00C01B167 |
Upgrade to VTR-TL00C01B167 |
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P10 Plus |
The versions before VKY-AL00C00B167 |
Upgrade to VKY-AL00C00B167 |
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The vertions before VKY-TL00C01B167 |
Upgrade to VKY-TL00C01B167 |
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities allow attackers to crash the call and data communication process.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
HWPSIRT-2017-06008 and HWPSIRT-2017-06009: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)
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:
An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can send given parameter to call module to crash the call and data communication process.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
These vulnerabilities were reported to Huawei PSIRT by Erez Yalon of Checkmarx. Huawei would like to thank Erez Yalon for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-07-25 V1.0 INITIAL
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