Security Advisory - Arbitrary Memory Write Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170816-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Aug 16, 2017
- Last Release Date: Dec 01, 2017
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-8150.
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-20170816-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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P10 |
The versions before Victoria-L09AC605B162 |
Upgrade to Victoria-L09AC605B162 |
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The versions before Victoria-L29AC605B162 |
Upgrade to Victoria-L29AC605B162 |
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P10 Plus |
The versions before Vicky-L29AC605B162 |
Upgrade to Vicky-L29AC605B162 |
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P8 Lite |
The Versions before ALE-L21C113B566 |
ALE-L21C113B566 |
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P9 |
The Versions before EVA-L09C432B391 |
EVA-L09C432B391 |
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The Versions before EVA-L09C576B386 |
EVA-L09C576B386 |
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The Versions before EVA-L09C605B390 |
EVA-L09C605B390 |
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The Versions before EVA-L09C635B387 |
EVA-L09C635B387 |
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The Versions before EVA-L09C636B388 |
EVA-L09C636B388 |
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The Versions before EVA-L19C10B390 |
EVA-L19C10B390 |
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The Versions before EVA-L19C432B388 |
EVA-L19C432B388 |
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The Versions before EVA-L19C605B390 |
EVA-L19C605B390 |
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The Versions before EVA-L19C636B391 |
EVA-L19C636B391 |
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)
The attacker has gained the root privilege of an Android system and successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious APP.
Vulnerability details:
An attacker with the root privilege of an Android system may trick a user into installing a malicious APP. The APP can modify specific data to cause arbitrary memory writing in the next system reboot, causing continuous system reboot or arbitrary code execution.
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 Aravind, Machiry. Huawei would like to thank Aravind, Machiry for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-08-16 V1.0 INITIAL
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