Huawei releases August 2022 security update details as HarmonyOS 3 launches

As a part of the Huawei monthly security maintenance release process, Huawei aims to fix dozens of vulnerabilities encountered in the running version. Likely, Huawei has publishes the August 2022 security update details for the eligible devices as HarmonyOS 3 launches.

Notably, HarmonyOS 3.0 has already hit the Chinese smartphone market, with lots of supporting features that help to manage all of the Software systems on your smartphone to help you to perform basic tasks and to give comprehensive control of peripheral devices such as Bluetooth and FreeBuds.

On the other hand, the August 2022 security update for the Huawei devices helps to patch the security gaps for the following major operating system, also July 2022 security update issues occur in the Huawei devices.

Through, the August 2022 security patch, Huawei aims to fix dozens of vulnerabilities encountered in the previous update. As per the monthly security update criteria, the firm works to address the running version exploits and prevent your devices from unhealthy ethics.

Below you can check the following August 2022 security update details mentioned:

Framework section:

August 2022 security patch from the Framework section marks one (CVE-2021-40034) from the critical level of severity, one severity (CVE-2021-40052) from the high level, and two marked as a medium level of severity (CVE-2022-37007, CVE-2021-40012).

It aims to encounter the memory overwriting vulnerability caused by additional overflow from the video frameworks. Alongside, a different module has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that is a successful exploit in the August 2022 security patch.

Kernel Section:

The kernel section marks one severity from the high level of CVE-2022-37001, which aims to fix the diag0router module interception excessive long and short instruction vulnerability.

System Section:

It also exploits the one CVE from the medium level of severity (CVE-2022-37008), which aims to fix the recovery module by bypassing the verification of an update package vulnerability.

Application Section:

The August 2022 security patch includes 5 different levels of CVEs from the application section which marked two as high levels of severity (CVE-2022-37002 CVE-2022-37004) and three marked as a medium level of severity (CVE-2022-37003, CVE-2022-37005, CVE-2021-40030 ).

It aims to fix the My Huawei app defect in the design and also fix the permission assignment from the AOD module.

Third-Party library:

The August 2022 security update encountered a total of 5 high levels of severity  (CVE-2022-25845, CVE-2021-44732, CVE-2022-30594, CVE-2021-22570, CVE-2022-0778) and 2 CVEs from the medium level of severity from the third-party library.

Notably, the users should keep checking on their device whether they received the August 2022 patch or not through the Settings>> System & Update>> now follow the on-screen instructions.