Security Advisory - Input Validation Vulnerabilities in Camera Driver of Huawei Smart Phones

There are five input validation vulnerabilities in the Camera driver of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can send given parameter to Camera driver to crash the system or escalate user privilege. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-05138, HWPSIRT-2016-05139, HWPSIRT-2016-05140, HWPSIRT-2016-05141, HWPSIRT-2016-05142)

These vulnerabilities have been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6180, CVE-2016-6181, CVE-2016-6182, CVE-2016-6183, CVE-2016-6184.

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-20160716-01-smartphone-en