CVE-2017-15347: huawei technologies co., ltd. mate 9 pro Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-15347 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Use After Free vulnerability in huawei technologies co., ltd. mate 9 pro. EPSS estimates a 0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 15-02-2018
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Huawei Mate 9 Pro mobile phones with software of versions earlier than LON-AL00BC00B235 have a use after free (UAF) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can riggers access memory after free it. A local attacker may exploit this vulnerability to cause the mobile phone to crash.

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.