Security Advisory - Memory Double Free Vulnerability on Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180314-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Mar 14, 2018
- Last Release Date: Mar 14, 2018
There is a memory double free vulnerability on Huawei smartphones. The system does not manage the memory properly, that frees on the same memory address twice. An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application, successful exploit could result in malicious code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-10058)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17320.
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-20180314-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate 9 Pro |
LON-AL00BC00B139D |
8.0.0.343(C00) |
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LON-AL00BC00B229 |
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LON-L29DC721B188 |
8.0.0.360(C721) |
Successful exploit could result in malicious 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 the user to install a crafted application.
Vulnerability details:
The system does not manage the memory properly, that frees on the same memory address twice. An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application, successful exploit could result in 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 first reported to Huawei PSIRT by Yonggang Guo of IceSword Lab, Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd and later by Pengfei Ding of Baidu X-Lab. Huawei would like to thank Yonggang Guo and Pengfei Ding for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2018-03-14 V1.0 INITIAL
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