Security Advisory - Integer Overflow Vulnerability on Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180124-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Jan 24, 2018
- Last Release Date: Jan 24, 2018
There is an integer overflow vulnerability on smartphones. The camera driver does not validate the external input parameters and causes an integer overflow, which in the after processing results in a buffer overflow. An attacker tricks the user to install a crafted application, successful exploit could cause malicious code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-09156)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17324.
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-20180124-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate 9 Pro |
LON-AL00BC00B139D |
8.0.0.334(C00) |
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LON-AL00BC00B229 |
Successful exploit could cause malicious code execution.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 7.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker tricks the user to install a crafted application.
Vulnerability details:
The camera driver does not validate the external input parameters and causes an integer overflow, which in the after processing results in a buffer overflow. An attacker tricks the user to install a crafted application, successful exploit could cause malicious 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 discovered by Huawei internal tester.
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