Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Huawei Honor 5C and Honor 6X Smartphones

CVE-2017-8212 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The driver of honor 5C,honor 6x Huawei smart phones with software of versions earlier than NEM-AL10C00B356, versions earlier than Berlin-L21HNC432B360 have a buffer overflow vulnerability 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.

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