Huawei has officially started the EMUI 12 beta rollout for global devices. Starting with Europe the company has expanded its new EMUI version rapidly and seems to be starting a stable rollout in H1 2022. In terms of security patches, Huawei also focuses on the HarmonyOS update for its eligible devices in a regular manner.
Apart from the EMUI 12 and HarmonyOS, the January 2022 Huawei EMUI security patch is now live and it fixes 2 critical, 12 high levels of CVEs, 47 medium levels of CVEs while there’s no low level of CVEs. The December 2021 security patch (third-party library) also fixes 2 high levels of CVE.
This security update includes the CVE announced in the December 2021 Android security bulletin:
Critical: CVE-2021-0967, CVE-2021-0968
High: CVE-2021-0704, CVE-2021-0952, CVE-2021-0954, CVE-2021-0955, CVE-2021-0963, CVE-2021-0964, CVE-2021-0965, CVE-2021-0966, CVE-2021-0970, CVE-2021-0971, CVE-2021-33909, CVE-2021-38204
Medium: CVE-2021-0726, CVE-2021-0849, CVE-2021-0731, CVE-2021-0738, CVE-2021-0761, CVE-2021-0765, CVE-2021-0768, CVE-2021-0770, CVE-2021-0772, CVE-2021-0789, CVE-2021-0803, CVE-2021-0866, CVE-2021-0716, CVE-2021-0855, CVE-2021-0560, CVE-2021-0805, CVE-2021-0779, CVE-2021-0791, CVE-2021-0795, CVE-2021-0838, CVE-2021-0840, CVE-2021-0844, CVE-2021-0796, CVE-2021-0797, CVE-2021-0798, CVE-2021-0804, CVE-2021-0822, CVE-2021-0824, CVE-2021-0886, CVE-2021-0969, CVE-2021-0976, CVE-2021-0992, CVE-2021-0998, CVE-2021-1007, CVE-2021-1009, CVE-2021-1010, CVE-2021-1011, CVE-2021-1012, CVE-2021-1022, CVE-2021-1024, CVE-2021-1030, CVE-2021-1031, CVE-2020-25668, CVE-2021-39636, CVE-2021-39648, CVE-2021-39656, CVE-2021-23134
Low: none
Already included in previous updates: CVE-2020-0368, CVE-2021-0434, CVE-2021-0929, CVE-2021-0794, CVE-2021-0837, CVE-2021-0759, CVE-2020-26139, CVE-2020-11288, CVE-2020-11176, CVE-2020-11291, CVE-2020-11304, CVE-2021-1900, CVE-2021-1925, CVE-2021-1937, CVE-2021-30260, CVE-2021-1914, CVE-2021-1916, CVE-2021-1919, CVE-2021-1920, CVE-2021-1886, CVE-2021-1888, CVE-2021-1889, CVE-2021-1890, CVE-2021-1909, CVE-2021-1923, CVE-2021-1933, CVE-2021-1935, CVE-2021-1946, CVE-2021-1952, CVE-2021-1960, CVE-2021-1971, CVE-2021-30295, CVE-2021-1934, CVE-2021-1913, CVE-2021-1917, CVE-2021-1932, CVE-2021-1936, CVE-2021-1949, CVE-2021-1959, CVE-2021-1984, CVE-2021-1985, CVE-2021-30256, CVE-2021-30257, CVE-2021-30258, CVE-2021-30288, CVE-2021-30291, CVE-2021-30292, CVE-2021-30297, CVE-2021-30302, CVE-2021-30310, CVE-2021-1983
This security update includes the CVE of other third-party library patches:
High: CVE-2021-20322, CVE-2021-3640
This security update includes the following HUAWEI patches:
CVE-2021-40026: Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the AOD module
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service integrity.
CVE-2021-40020: Out-of-bounds array read vulnerability in the security storage module
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI 11.0.0, EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, EMUI 10.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0, Magic UI 3.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.
CVE-2021-40011: Uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the display module
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI 11.0.0, EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, EMUI 10.0.0, EMUI 9.1.1, EMUI 9.1.0, Magic UI 4.0.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0, Magic UI 3.0.0, Magic UI 2.1.1
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service integrity.
CVE-2021-40009: Out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the AOD module
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service integrity.
CVE-2021-40038: Double free vulnerability in the AOD module
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service integrity.
CVE-2021-40037: Vulnerability of accessing resources using an incompatible type (type confusion) in the MPTCP subsystem
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.1, EMUI 11.0.0, EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, EMUI 10.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0, Magic UI 3.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause the system to crash and restart.
CVE-2021-40029: Buffer overflow vulnerability due to a boundary error with the Samba server in the file management module
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.1, EMUI 11.0.0, EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, EMUI 10.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0, Magic UI 3.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect function stability.
CVE-2021-40035: Buffer overflow vulnerability due to a boundary error with the Samba server in the file management module
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.1, EMUI 11.0.0, EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, EMUI 10.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0, Magic UI 3.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect function stability.
CVE-2021-40031: Null pointer dereference vulnerability in the camera module
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service integrity.
CVE-2021-40039: Null pointer dereference vulnerability in the camera module
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service integrity.
CVE-2021-40004: Improper permission management vulnerability in the cellular module
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.0, EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, Magic UI 4.0.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.
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