Security Advisory - Double Free Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180418-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Apr 18, 2018
- Last Release Date: Apr 18, 2018
The Mali Driver of some Huawei smart phones has a double free vulnerability. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application and exploit this vulnerability when in the exception handling process. Successful exploitation may cause system reboot. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-02020)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-7899.
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-20180418-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Berkeley-AL20 |
8.0.0.105(C00) |
Upgrade to 8.0.0.160(C00) |
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8.0.0.111(C00) |
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8.0.0.112D(C00) |
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8.0.0.116(C00) |
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8.0.0.119(C00) |
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8.0.0.119D(C00) |
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8.0.0.122(C00) |
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8.0.0.132(C00) |
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8.0.0.132D(C00) |
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8.0.0.142(C00) |
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8.0.0.151(C00) |
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Berkeley-BD |
1.0.0.21 |
Upgrade to Berkeley-AL20 8.0.0.160(C00) |
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1.0.0.22 |
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1.0.0.23 |
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1.0.0.24 |
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1.0.0.26 |
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1.0.0.29 |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can cause system reboot.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.3 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 4.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
The Mali Driver of some Huawei smart phones has a double free vulnerability. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application and exploit this vulnerability when in the exception handling process. Successful exploitation may 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 discovered by Huawei internal tester.
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