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Huawei released March 2022 EMUI patch details

Huawei has officially started the EMUI 12 stable rollout for global devices. 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 March 2022 Huawei EMUI security patch is now live and it fixes 14 high levels of CVEs, 2 medium levels of CVEs while there’s no low level of CVEs. It also fixes the 9 CVEs announced in February 2022.

Critical: none

High: CVE-2020-13112, CVE-2020-13113, CVE-2021-39619, CVE-2021-39663, CVE-2021-39666, CVE-2021-39669, CVE-2021-39674, CVE-2021-39676, CVE-2021-39631, CVE-2021-35068, CVE-2021-35074, CVE-2021-35075, CVE-2021-35077, CVE-2021-35069

Medium: CVE-2021-30324, CVE-2021-30325

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Low: none

Already included in previous updates: CVE-2021-39626, CVE-2021-39633, CVE-2021-39634, CVE-2021-0775, CVE-2021-1027, CVE-2021-1028, CVE-2021-1029, CVE-2021-0759, CVE-2021-0852

This security update includes the following HUAWEI patches:

CVE-2021-40054: Integer underflow vulnerability in the atcmdserver module

Severity: High

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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 integrity.

CVE-2021-40011: Uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the display module

Severity: High

Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0

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Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect integrity.

CVE-2021-40053: Permission control vulnerability in the Nearby module

Severity: Medium

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 will affect availability and integrity.

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CVE-2021-40052: Incorrect buffer size calculation vulnerability in the video framework

Severity: High

Affected versions: EMUI 11.0.1, EMUI 11.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0

Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.

CVE-2021-40051: Unauthorized access vulnerability in system components

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Severity: Medium

Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.1, 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 will affect confidentiality.

CVE-2021-40050: Out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the IFAA module

Severity: High

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Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.1, 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 cause stack overflow.

CVE-2021-40049: Permission control vulnerability in the PMS 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

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Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to sensitive system information being obtained without authorization.

CVE-2021-40048: Incorrect buffer size calculation vulnerability in the video framework

Severity: High

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 will affect availability.

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CVE-2021-40062: Vulnerability of copying input buffer without checking its size in the video framework

Severity: High

Affected versions: EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0

Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.

CVE-2021-40047: Vulnerability of memory not being released after effective lifetime in the Bastet module

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Severity: High

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 integrity.

CVE-2021-40061: Vulnerability of accessing resources using an incompatible type (type confusion) in the Bastet module

Severity: Medium

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Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.1, 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 integrity.

CVE-2021-40060: Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the video framework

Severity: High

Affected versions: EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0

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Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.

CVE-2021-40059: Permission control vulnerability in the Wi-Fi 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, Magic UI 4.0.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0

Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect confidentiality.

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CVE-2021-40058: Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the video framework

Severity: High

Affected versions: EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0

Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.

CVE-2021-40057: Heap-based and stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the video framework

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Severity: High

Affected versions: EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0

Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.

CVE-2021-40056: Vulnerability of copying input buffer without checking its size in the video framework

Severity: High

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Affected versions: EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0

Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.

CVE-2021-40063: Improper access control vulnerability in the video module

Severity: High

Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.1, 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

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Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect confidentiality.

CVE-2021-40064: Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in system components

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 system stability.

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CVE-2021-40055: Man-in-the-middle attack vulnerability during system update download in recovery mode

Severity: Critical

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 integrity.

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