Buffer overflow in Huawei Honor 6
CVE-2016-8783
Touchscreen drive in Huawei H60 (Honor 6) Versions earlier than H60-L02_6.12.16 and P9 Plus Versions earlier than VIE-AL10BC00B356 has a stack overflow vulnerabilities. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to touchscreen drive to crash the system or escalate privilege.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.009 (59.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 60th percentile — 59.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Huawei Honor 6
- Huawei Honor 6 Firmware
- Huawei P9 Plus
- Huawei P9 Plus Firmware
- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. H60 (Honor 6), P9 Plus — versions Versions earlier than H60-L02_6.12.16, Versions earlier than?VIE-AL10BC00B356
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94944 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161215-01-smartphone-en (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-8783?
- CVE-2016-8783 is a high-severity vulnerability in Huawei Honor 6, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-03-09.
- How severe is CVE-2016-8783?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.