Huawei Smartphones SMS Denial Of Service Vulnerability
There is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Short Message Service (SMS) module of some Huawei smart phones. An unauthenticated attacker may set up a pseudo base station, and send special malware text message to the phone, causing the mobile phone to fail to make calls and send and receive text messages.
(Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-11061)
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-17175.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180629-01-smartphone-en
Duncan is a technology professional with over 20 years experience of working in various IT roles. He has a interest in cyber security, and has a wide range of other skills in radio, electronics and telecommunications.