Huawei Mate 9/Mate 9 Pro/Mate 10/Mate 10 Pro up to 8.0.0 Baseband Parameter memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Huawei Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro, Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro up to 8.0.0. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Baseband Module. The manipulation as part of Parameter leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2017-15311. It is possible to launch the attack on the physical device. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Huawei Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro, Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro up to 8.0.0 (Smartphone Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Baseband Module. 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. The summary by CVE is:

The baseband modules of Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with software before ALP-AL00 8.0.0.120(SP2C00), before BLA-AL00 8.0.0.120(SP2C00), before MHA-AL00B 8.0.0.334(C00), and before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.334(C00) have a stack overflow vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker could send malicious packets to the smart phones within radio range by special wireless device, which leads stack overflow when the baseband module handles these packets. The attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform a denial of service attack or remote code execution in baseband module.

The bug was discovered 11/30/2017. The weakness was published 12/22/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at huawei.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-15311 since 10/14/2017. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 22 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Huawei

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• Mate 9
• Mate 9 Pro
• Mate 10
• Mate 10 Pro

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• 8.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/

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