Huawei Honor 5C/Honor 6X Driver Parameter memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei Honor 5C and Honor 6X and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Driver. Such manipulation as part of Parameter leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2017-8211. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Huawei Honor 5C and Honor 6X (the affected version is unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Driver. The manipulation as part of a Parameter 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:

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.

The bug was discovered 08/04/2017. The weakness was released 11/22/2017 (Website). The advisory is available at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-8211 since 04/25/2017. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 110 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-109942, VDB-109943, VDB-109944 and VDB-109945. 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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04/25/2017 🔍
08/04/2017 +101 days 🔍
11/22/2017 +110 days 🔍
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11/23/2017 +1 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: sa-20170801-01
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-8211 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-8211
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-109946
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Entryinfo

Created: 11/23/2017 19:37
Updated: 01/16/2023 09:49
Changes: 11/23/2017 19:37 (58), 12/10/2019 15:12 (2), 01/16/2023 09:49 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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