Huawei P10/P10 Plus Bastet memory corruption

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Huawei P10 and P10 Plus. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Bastet. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2017-2725. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Huawei P10 and P10 Plus (Smartphone Operating System) (affected version not known). This affects some unknown functionality of the component Bastet. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Bastet in P10 Plus and P10 smart phones with software Eariler than VKY-AL00C00B123 verisons,Earlier than VTR-AL00C00B123 versions have a buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker with the root privilege of an Android system may trick a user into installing a malicious APP. The APP can modify specific data to cause buffer overflow in the next system reboot, causing continuous system reboot or arbitrary code execution.

The bug was discovered 04/05/2017. The weakness was shared 11/22/2017 by Venustech with Adlab of Venustech (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at huawei.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-2725 since 12/01/2016. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 231 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 97696†). The entries VDB-109838 and VDB-109840 are related to this item. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Huawei

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• P10
• P10 Plus

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/

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