CVE-2017-8212

The driver of honor 5C,honor 6x Huawei smart phones with software of versions earlier than NEM-AL10C00B356, versions earlier than Berlin-L21HNC432B360 have a buffer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious APP which has the root privilege of the Android system, the APP can send a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing a system reboot or arbitrary code execution.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - psirt@huawei.com

Published

2017-11-22

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Honor 5c Firmware (Huawei)
• Honor 6x Firmware (Huawei)
• Honor 5chonor 6x (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.)

References

• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170801-01-smartphone-en