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Security Advisory - Double Free Vulnerability on Bastet Module of Some Huawei Smartphones

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20190220-01-smartphone
  • Initial Release Date: Feb 20, 2019
  • Last Release Date: Mar 18, 2019

There is a double free vulnerability on Bastet module of some Huawei smartphones. An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application, which frees on the same memory address twice. Successful exploit could result in malicious code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-12500)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5282.

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-20190220-01-smartphone-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Emily-AL00A

Versions earlier than Emily-AL00A 9.0.0.182(C00E82R1P21)

Emily-AL00A 9.0.0.182(C00E82R1P21)

Emily-TL00B

Versions earlier than Emily-TL00B 9.0.0.182(C01E82R1P21)

Emily-TL00B 9.0.0.182(C01E82R1P21)

Emily-L09C

Versions earlier than Emily-L09C 9.0.0.203(C432E7R1P11)

Emily-L09C 9.0.0.203(C432E7R1P11)

Emily-L29C

Versions earlier than Emily-L29C 9.0.0.203(C432E7R1P11)

Emily-L29C 9.0.0.203(C432E7R1P11)

Emily-L29C

Versions earlier than Emily-L29C 9.0.0.202(C185E2R1P12)

Emily-L29C 9.0.0.202(C185E2R1P12)

Emily-L29C

Versions earlier than Emily-L29C 9.0.0.207(C636E7R1P13)

Emily-L29C 9.0.0.207(C636E7R1P13)

Emily-L29C

Versions earlier than Emily-L29C 9.0.0.205(C635E2R1P11)

Emily-L29C 9.0.0.205(C635E2R1P11)

Hima-L09CA

Versions earlier than Hima-L09CA 9.0.0.198(C432E10R1P16)

Hima-L09CA 9.0.0.198(C432E10R1P16)

Hima-L29CA

Versions earlier than Hima-L29CA 9.0.0.198(C432E10R1P16)

Hima-L29CA 9.0.0.198(C432E10R1P16)

Hima-L29C

Versions earlier than Hima-L29C 9.0.0.204(C636E10R2P1)

Hima-L29C 9.0.0.204(C636E10R2P1)


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)

Overall Score: 6.0


This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

An attacker tricks the user to install a crafted application.

Vulnerability details:

An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application, which frees on the same memory address twice. 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 discovered by Huawei internal tester.


2019-03-18 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the affected version and fix version information
2019-02-20 V1.0 INITIAL


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