Security Advisory - Multiple Vulnerabilities in MTK Platform

There are two buffer overflow vulnerabilities and one arbitrary memory write vulnerability in the camera driver of MTK platform in some Huawei smart phones. Due to the insufficient input verification, an attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has special privilege and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing privilege escalation. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-04170,HWPSIRT-2017-04171 and HWPSIRT-2017-04172)

The three vulnerabilities have been assigned three Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) IDs: CVE-2017-8179, CVE-2017-8180 and CVE-2017-8181.

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-20170919-01-mtk-en&gt;