Security Advisory - Local Permission Escalation Vulnerability in GPU of P7 Phones

The graphics processing unit (GPU) of Huawei P7 phones have a local permission escalation vulnerability.GPU does not properly validate the specific input parameters. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and use the application to read and modify product memory address, which can crash the system or cause permission escalation. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-09018)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8089.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
<http://www.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-460276.htm&gt;