There is a stack overflow vulnerability in some Huawei smart phone. An attacker can craft specific packet to exploit this vulnerability. Due to insufficient verification, this could be exploited to tamper with the information to affect the availability. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-11030) This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9253.
A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).
The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
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| https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/2020/huawei-sa-20200715-08-smartphone-en | vendor advisory |