Security Advisory - Buffer overflow Vulnerability in Bastet Driver of Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170914-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Sep 14, 2017
- Last Release Date: Sep 14, 2017
The Bastet driver of some Huawei smart phones has a buffer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious APP which has the root privilege; the APP can send a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing arbitrary code execution.(Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-07091)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8204.
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-20170914-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Honor 9 |
Versions earlier than Stanford-AL10C00B175 |
Stanford-AL10C00B175 |
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause arbitrary code execution.
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:
An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has the root privilege.
Vulnerability details:
The APP can send a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing 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 Yonggang Guo of IceSword Lab, Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. Huawei would like to thank Yonggang Guo for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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