Huawei fixed a dangerous Bluetooth bug in September 2021 update

With the release of the September 2021 Security Patch details, Huawei highlights the bugs and their fixes for the Huawei and Honor devices. It’ll fix various issues in the system alongside a Bluetooth bug that could harm a user in several ways.

The latest security patch includes a medium-level bug fix identity as CVE-2021-37039 on the smartphones running on EMUI 11.0.0, EMUI 10.1.1, Magic UI 4.0.0, Magic UI 3.1.1 Android skins. Once an attacker successfully exploits cross this Bluetooth bug, it may cause a serious Bluetooth DoS.

What is Bluetooth DoS:

The Bluetooth system in any device can be the mean of DoS (Denial of service) attracts and cloud seriously harm the victim. In BT DoS, the attacker or hacker frequently requests to pair the target’s Bluetooth device with his in order to access the personal info of the soon-to-be victim.

However, Huawei has timely recognized this flaw and release the patch fix. Once it reaches the device holders, they will get input verification notice before their device is paired with the other. It’ll help them to avoid intruders.

In simple words, when someone wants to establish a BT connection with users, the device will ask for the owner’s permission before connecting the other device. If the second user is a known person, you can accept the request and can grant the permission. Furthermore, you can also deny it, if you don’t know the origin of the second device.

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Although Huawei has released the patch details, the company hasn’t started the rollout process. It’s still releasing the June and July security patches not to talk about the August security release. Until the patch is available to the users, they can try to avoid enabling their BT, while not in use.

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