Huawei Honor 6/P9 Plus Touchscreen Driver Application memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei Honor 6 and P9 Plus. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Touchscreen Driver. Such manipulation as part of Application leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2016-8783. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei Honor 6 and P9 Plus (Smartphone Operating System) (version now known) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Touchscreen Driver. The manipulation as part of a Application leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Touchscreen drive in Huawei H60 (Honor 6) Versions earlier than H60-L02_6.12.16 and P9 Plus Versions earlier than VIE-AL10BC00B356 has a stack overflow vulnerabilities. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to touchscreen drive to crash the system or escalate privilege.

The bug was discovered 12/15/2016. The weakness was published 03/09/2018 by Security Team with 360 Vulpecker Team (Website). The advisory is shared for download at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-8783 since 10/18/2016. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 449 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 94944†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

10/18/2016 🔍
12/12/2016 +55 days 🔍
12/15/2016 +3 days 🔍
03/09/2018 +449 days 🔍
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03/10/2018 +1 days 🔍
02/17/2023 +1805 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: sa-20161215-01
Researcher: Security Team
Organization: 360 Vulpecker Team
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2016-8783 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-8783
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-114260
SecurityFocus: 94944 - Huawei H60 CVE-2016-8783 Local Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2018 08:27 PM
Updated: 02/17/2023 06:54 PM
Changes: 03/10/2018 08:27 PM (64), 01/11/2020 07:19 PM (3), 02/17/2023 06:54 PM (4)
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