Huawei P8 Video Driver input validation

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Huawei P8. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Video Driver. Such manipulation leads to input validation. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2015-8682. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Huawei P8 (Smartphone Operating System) (the affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Video Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Video0 driver in Huawei P8 smartphones with software GRA-UL00 before GRA-UL00C00B350, GRA-UL10 before GRA-UL10C00B350, GRA-TL00 before GRA-TL00C01B350, GRA-CL00 before GRA-CL00C92B350, and GRA-CL10 before GRA-CL10C92B350 and Mate S smartphones with software CRR-TL00 before CRR-TL00C01B160SP01, CRR-UL00 before CRR-UL00C00B160, and CRR-CL00 before CRR-CL00C92B161 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from stack memory or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted application, which triggers an invalid memory access.

The weakness was released 04/13/2016 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-8682 since 12/24/2015. The attack needs to be approached locally. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/24/2022).

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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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Huawei

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• P8

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/

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