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The Madapt Driver of some Huawei smart phones has a use after free (UAF) vulnerability. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application which has a high privilege to exploit this vulnerability, Successful exploitation may cause arbitrary code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-08133)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8160.
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-20171018-01-smartphone-en
Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
Vicky-AL00A |
Earlier than Vicky-AL00AC00B172 versions |
Upgrade to Vicky-AL00AC00B172 |
Vicky-AL00C |
Vicky-AL00CC768B122 |
Vicky-AL00CC768B173 |
Vicky-TL00A |
Vicky-TL00AC01B167 |
Vicky-TL00AC01B172 |
Victoria-AL00A |
Earlier than Victoria-AL00AC00B172 versions |
Upgrade to Victoria-AL00AC00B172 |
Victoria-TL00A |
Victoria-TL00AC00B123 |
Victoria-TL00AC01B172 |
Victoria-TL00AC01B167 |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can 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:
The attacker has successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious application which has a high privilege.
Vulnerability details:
The Madapt Driver of some Huawei smart phones has a use after free (UAF) vulnerability. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application which has a high privilege to exploit this vulnerability, Successful exploitation may cause 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.
2017-10-18 V1.0 INITIAL
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