Security Advisory - DOS Vulnerability in Bastet Component of Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20171018-03-dos
- Initial Release Date: Oct 18, 2017
- Last Release Date: Oct 18, 2017
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8186.
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-20171018-03-dos-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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MHA-AL00A |
Earlier than MHA-AL00BC00B231 versions |
Upgrade to MHA-AL00BC00B231 |
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability allows attackers 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)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious APP.
Vulnerability details:
The Bastet of some Huawei mobile phones has a DOS vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious APP. The APP can modify specific parameter to cause system reboot.
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 He Yao, Bao Chenfu, and Wei Tao of Baidu X-Lab. Huawei would like to thank He Yao, Bao Chenfu, and Wei Tao for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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