Security Advisory - Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Bastet of Huawei Smart Phone

The Bastet of some Huawei mobile phones have three buffer overflow vulnerabilities due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker with the root privilege of an Android system may trick a user into installing a malicious APP. The APP can modify specific data to cause buffer overflow in the next system reboot, causing continuous system reboot or arbitrary code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-02018,HWPSIRT-2017-02019 and HWPSIRT-2017-02020)

These vulnerabilities have been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2724,CVE-2017-2725 and CVE-2017-2726.

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-20170405-01-smartphone-en