CVE-2016-8783: huawei technologies co., ltd. h60 (honor 6), p9 plus

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-8783 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in huawei technologies co., ltd. h60 (honor 6), p9 plus. EPSS estimates a 0.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 09-03-2018
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.