Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in Graphics Driver of Huawei Smart Phones

There is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Graphics driver of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and the application can make semaphore deadlock issue, which causes the system to crash. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-12015)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1496.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
<http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160113-01-smartphone-en&gt;