Security Advisory - Stack Overflow Vulnerability in Drive of Huawei Smart Phones

There is a stack overflow vulnerabilities in touchscreen drive of some Huawei Smart phones. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to touchscreen drive to crash the system or escalate privilege (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-11070).

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8783.

Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link: <http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161215-01-smartphone-en&gt;