CVE-2016-8783 Memory corruption in H60 (Honor 6), P9 Plus

What is CVE-2016-8783?

CVE-2016-8783 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. H60 (Honor 6), P9 Plus, published on 9 Mar 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8783?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Huawei Honor 6 Firmware, Huawei P9 Plus Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8783?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-8783 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-8783 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8783 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. H60 (Honor 6), P9 Plus

• CVE-2016-8759 Memory corruption in P9,Honor 6 Versions before EVA-AL10C00B192,Versions before H60-L02 6.10.1 High 7.8
• CVE-2016-8760 Memory corruption in P9,Honor 6 Versions before EVA-AL10C00B192,Versions before H60-L02 6.10.1 High 7.8
• CVE-2016-8761 Memory corruption in P9,Honor 6 Versions before EVA-AL10C00B192,Versions before H60-L02 6.10.1 High 7.8
• CVE-2016-8768 Privilege escalation in Honor 6,Honor 6 Plus,Honor 7 Versions earlier than 6.9.16 High 7.8
• CVE-2016-6179 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g426-8hcq-8h96.