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Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in RTSP Module of Huawei Smart Phones

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20190523-01-smartphone
  • Initial Release Date: May 23, 2019
  • Last Release Date: May 23, 2019

There is a DoS vulnerability in RTSP module of some Huawei smart phones. Remote attacker could trick the user into opening a malformed RTSP media stream to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit could cause the affected phone abnormal, leading to a DoS condition. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-02004)


This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5284.

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-20190523-01-smartphone-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Leland-AL00A

Versions earlier than Leland-AL00A 9.1.0.111(C00E111R2P10T8)

Leland-AL00A 9.1.0.111(C00E111R2P10T8)

Successful exploit could cause the affected phone abnormal, leading to a DoS condition.

The severity of the vulnerability in this advisory has been assessed by the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Version 3.0 (CVSS v3 Specification Document).

Base Score: 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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:
The attacker tricks the user into opening a malformed RTSP media stream.
Vulnerability details:
Remote attacker could trick the user into opening a malformed RTSP media stream to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit could cause the affected phone abnormal, leading to a DoS condition.

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.

2019-05-23 V1.0 INITIAL

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