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

The driver of some Huawei smart phones have six buffer overflow vulnerabilities due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious APP which has the root privilege of the Android system, the APP can send a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing a system reboot or arbitrary code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-05184,HWPSIRT-2017-05185,HWPSIRT-2017-05186,HWPSIRT-2017-05187,HWPSIRT-2017-05188 and HWPSIRT-2017-05189)

The six vulnerabilities have been assigned six Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) IDs: CVE-2017-8207, CVE-2017-8208, CVE-2017-8209, CVE-2017-8210, CVE-2017-8211 and CVE-2017-8212.

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-20170801-01-smartphone-en&gt;