CVE-2017-17173

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
McAfee
Status
Mate 9 Pro
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 June 2018

Summary

Due to insufficient parameters verification GPU driver of Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with the versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00) has an arbitrary memory free vulnerability. An attacker can tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to driver to release special kernel memory resource. Successful exploit may result in phone crash or arbitrary code execution.

Affected Version(s)

Mate 9 Pro The versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00)

References

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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