Huawei Honor 5C/P9 Lite Wi-Fi Driver Application input validation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Huawei Honor 5C and P9 Lite. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Wi-Fi Driver. The manipulation as part of Application leads to input validation. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2017-8143. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Huawei Honor 5C and P9 Lite (Smartphone Operating System) (the affected version is unknown). This issue affects an unknown code of the component Wi-Fi Driver. The manipulation as part of a Application leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Wi-Fi driver of Honor 5C and P9 Lite Huawei smart phones with software versions earlier than NEM-L21C432B351 and versions earlier than VNS-L21C10B381 has a DoS vulnerability. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and the application can access invalid address of driver to crash the system.

The bug was discovered 06/23/2017. The weakness was presented 11/22/2017 by Security Team with Alibaba Mobile Security Team (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at huawei.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-8143 since 04/25/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful 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 152 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 99256†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.3

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

04/25/2017 🔍
06/23/2017 +59 days 🔍
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11/22/2017 +152 days 🔍
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11/23/2017 +1 days 🔍
01/11/2023 +1875 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: sa-20170623-01
Researcher: Security Team
Organization: Alibaba Mobile Security Team
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-8143 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-8143
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-109883
SecurityFocus: 99256 - Huawei Smart Phones CVE-2017-8143 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Entryinfo

Created: 11/23/2017 16:05
Updated: 01/11/2023 15:41
Changes: 11/23/2017 16:05 (63), 12/10/2019 08:19 (3), 01/11/2023 15:41 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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