Huawei Smart Phone Application out-of-bounds

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei Smart Phone VNS-L21AUTC555B141/VNS-L21C10B160/VNS-L21C66B160/VNS-L21C703B140. It has been classified as critical. This impacts an unknown function. This manipulation as part of Application causes out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2017-17306. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Huawei Smart Phone VNS-L21AUTC555B141/VNS-L21C10B160/VNS-L21C66B160/VNS-L21C703B140 (Smartphone Operating System). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation as part of a Application leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Some Huawei Smartphones with software of VNS-L21AUTC555B141, VNS-L21C10B160, VNS-L21C66B160, VNS-L21C703B140 have an array out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Due to the lack verification of array, an attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can exploit the vulnerability and make attacker to read out of bounds of array and possibly cause the device abnormal.

The bug was discovered 03/14/2018. The weakness was published 03/20/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at huawei.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-17306 since 12/04/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/22/2023).

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 6 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Similar entry is available at VDB-114806. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Smartphone Operating System

Vendor

• Huawei

Name

• Smart Phone

Version

• VNS-L21AUTC555B141
• VNS-L21C10B160
• VNS-L21C66B160
• VNS-L21C703B140

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/

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