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Huawei boot loader vulnerability

3 boot loader/smartphone security vulnerabilities from Huawei. Text of two and links to all 3 are below:

Security Advisory – Out-of-Bounds Memory Access Vulnerability in the Boot Loaders of Huawei Mobile Phones
SA No:huawei-sa-20170816-01-smartphone
Initial Release Date: 2017-08-16
The boot loaders of some Huawei mobile phones have an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker with the root privilege of an Android system may trick a user into installing a malicious APP. The APP can modify specific data to cause buffer overflow in the next system reboot, causing out-of-bounds memory read which can continuous system reboot. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-01070)
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-8149. Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. Successful exploit could cause out-of-bounds memory read, leading to continuous system reboot.
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present: 1) The attacker has gained the root privilege of an Android system and successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious APP. 2) An attacker with the root privilege of an Android system may trick a user into installing a malicious APP. The APP can modify specific data to cause out-of-bounds memory read, leading to continuous system reboot. This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by Aravind, Machiry. Huawei would like to thank Aravind, Machiry for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.[…]

Security Advisory – Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei Honor 5S Smart Phones
SA No:huawei-sa-20170816-03-smartphone
Initial Release Date: 2017-08-16
Huawei Honor 5S smart phones have an authentication bypass vulnerability due to the improper design of some components. An attacker can get a user’s smart phone and install malicious apps in the mobile phone, allowing the attacker to reset the password and fingerprint of the phone without authentication. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-07037). This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-8151. Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to reset the password and fingerprint of the phone. This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present: 1) The attacker obtains a user’s smart phone in unlocked state. An attacker can get a user’s smart phone and install malicious apps in the mobile phone, allowing the attacker to reset the password and fingerprint of the phone without authentication. This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by security researcher Zhang Qing. Huawei would like to thank Zhang Qing for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170816-01-smartphone-en
http://www.huawei.com/my/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170807-01-smartphone-en
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/2017/huawei-sa-20170816-03-smartphone-en
http://www.huawei.com/us/psirt

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravind-kumar-machiry-00459923

https://cn.linkedin.com/in/%E6%B8%85-%E5%BC%A0-4b37b2108

 

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Hagfish: UEFI Bootloader for Barrelfish

Barrelfish is a new research operating system being built from scratch and released by ETH Zurich in Switzerland, originally in collaboration with Microsoft Research and now partly supported by HP Enterprise Labs, Huawei, Cisco, Oracle, and VMware. […]

Hagfish is the Barrelfish/ARMv8 UEFI loader prototype: Hagfish (it’s a basal chordate i.e. something like the ancestor of all fishes). Hagfish is a second-stage bootloader for Barrelfish on UEFI platforms, most importantly the ARMv8 server platform. […]

http://www.barrelfish.org/

https://github.com/BarrelfishOS/hagfish

https://github.com/BarrelfishOS/uefi-sdk

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UEFI Plugfest slides uploaded

https://uefi.blogspot.com/2017/03/uefi-plugfest-2017-in-nanjing.html

Tim Lewis of Insyde has a blog post with an update for the UEFI plugfest. *Multiple* presentations on security!!

 State of UEFI – Mark Doran (Intel)
 Keynote: China Information Technology Ecosystem – Guangnan Ni (Chinese Academy of Engineering).
 The Role of UEFI Technologies Play in ARM Platform Architecture – Dong Wei (ARM)
 ARM Server’s Firmware Security – Zhixiong (Jonathan) Zhang, Cavium
 SMM Protection in EDK II – Jiewen Yao (Intel)
 Server RAS and UEFI CPER – Mao Lucia and Spike Yuan (Intel)
 A More Secure and Better User Experience for OS-based Firmware Update – David Liu (Phoenix)
 UEFI and IoT: Best Practices in Developing IoT Firmware Solutions – Hawk Chen (Byosoft)
 Establishing and Protecting a Chain of Trust with UEFI – David Chen (Insyde)
 Implementation of Hypervisor in UEFI Firmware – Kangkang Shen (Huawei)
 Lessons Learned from Implementing a Wi-Fi and BT Stack – Tony Lo (AMI)
  UEFI Development Anti-Patterns – Chris Stewart (HP)

http://www.uefi.org/learning_center/presentationsandvideos

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Reversing Huawei router firmware, part 5

Juan Carlos has a written part 5 of his series of firmware reversing posts!

http://jcjc-dev.com/2016/12/14/reversing-huawei-5-reversing-firmware/

I think I missed part 4!
https://firmwaresecurity.com/2016/05/23/reversing-huawei-routers-part-3/

 

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Reversing Huawei routers, part 3

In part 2, Juan Carlos was interacting with the CLI in U-Boot. What will happen in episode 3? Spoiler alert: there is an episode 4 planned!

Practical Reverse Engineering Part 3 – Following the Data
Part 1: We found a door into the firmware in the form of a UART debug port
Part 2: We took a first look at the firmware, collected all sorts of data

The best thing about hardware hacking is having full access to very bare metal, and all the electrical signals that make the system work. With ingenuity and access to the right equipment we should be able to obtain any data we want. From simply sniffing traffic with a cheap logic analyser to using thousands of dollars worth of equipment to obtain private keys by measuring the power consumed by the device with enough precission (power analysis side channel attack); if the physics make sense, it’s likely to work given the right circumstances. In this post I’d like to discuss traffic sniffing and how we can use it to gather intel. Traffic sniffing at a practical level is used all the time for all sorts of purposes, from regular debugging during the delopment process to reversing the interface of gaming controllers, etc. It’s definitely worth a post of its own, even though this device can be reversed without it. […]

Post:

http://jcjc-dev.com/2016/05/23/reversing-huawei-3-sniffing/

https://firmwaresecurity.com/2016/04/09/huawei-hg533-reversing-part-i/

https://firmwaresecurity.com/2016/04/30/reversing-huawei-router-part-2-u-boots-cli/

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Reversing Huawei router part 2: U-Boot’s CLI

Juan Carlos Jiménez has written the 2nd part of his series on reversing a Huawei router! The first part was excellent, this one is just as good.

Practical Reverse Engineering Part 2 – Scouting the Firmware

In part 1 we found a debug UART port that gave us access to a linux shell. At this point we’ve got the same access to the router that a developer would use to debug issues, control the system, etc. This first overview of the system is easy to access, doesn’t require expensive tools and will often yield very interesting results. If you want to do some hardware hacking but don’t have the time to get your hands too dirty, this is often the point where you stop digging into the hardware and start working on the higher level interfaces: network vulnerabilities, ISP configuration protocols, etc. […]

Part 2:
http://jcjc-dev.com/2016/04/29/reversing-huawei-router-2-scouting-firmware/

Part 1:
https://firmwaresecurity.com/2016/04/09/huawei-hg533-reversing-part-i/
http://jcjc-dev.com/2016/04/08/reversing-huawei-router-1-find-uart/

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