Security Advisory - Use After Free Vulnerability in Madapt Driver of Some Huawei Smart Phones

The Madapt Driver of some Huawei smart phones has a use after free (UAF) vulnerability. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application which has a high privilege to exploit this vulnerability, Successful exploitation may cause arbitrary code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-08133)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8160.

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-20171018-01-smartphone-en