Security Advisory - Information Disclosure Vulnerability on Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180314-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Mar 14, 2018
- Last Release Date: Mar 14, 2018
There is an information disclosure vulnerability on Huawei smartphones. The software does not properly protect certain resource which can be accessed by multithreading. An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application, successful exploit could result in kernel information disclosure. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-10056)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17319.
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-20180314-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Huawei P9 |
The versions before EVA-AL10C00B399SP02 |
EVA-AL10C00B399SP02 |
Successful exploit could result in kernel information disclosure.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 2.0 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 1.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker tricks the user to install a crafted application.
Vulnerability details:
The software does not properly protect certain resource which can be accessed by multithreading. An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application, successful exploit could result in kernel information disclosure.
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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