Security Advisory - Information Leak Vulnerability on Some Huawei Smart Phones

There is an information leak vulnerability on some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application. Due to coding error during layer information processing, attackers can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some layer information. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-11016)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5301.

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-20190807-01-mobile-en