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Use After Free

CVE-2019-5214

Severity Medium
Score 5.5/10

Summary

There is a use after free vulnerability on certain driver component in Huawei Mate10 smartphones versions earlier than ALP-AL00B 9.0.0.167(C00E85R2P20T8). An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application, which make the software to reference memory after it has been freed. Successful exploit could cause a denial of service condition.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published