Huawei HarmonyOS HwAirlink heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Huawei HarmonyOS and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component HwAirlink Module. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2022-38980. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS (the affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component HwAirlink Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The HwAirlink module has a heap overflow vulnerability in processing data packets of the proprietary protocol.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow attackers to obtain process control permissions.

The weakness was presented 10/14/2022. The advisory is shared at device.harmonyos.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-38980 since 08/29/2022. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/08/2022).

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

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Remote: Yes

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08/29/2022 🔍
10/14/2022 +46 days 🔍
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11/08/2022 +25 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: device.harmonyos.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-38980 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-38980
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-210913

Entryinfo

Created: 10/14/2022 23:51
Updated: 11/08/2022 12:48
Changes: 10/14/2022 23:51 (37), 11/08/2022 12:48 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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