Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Driver of Huawei Smart Phone

The camerafs driver of some Huawei products has buffer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of input validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has the system privilege of the Android system and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing a system crash or privilege escalation. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03002)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2716.

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-20170426-02-smartphone-en&gt;