CVE-2017-2716: huawei technologies co., ltd. mate 9

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-2716 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in huawei technologies co., ltd. mate 9. EPSS estimates a 0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 22-11-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The camerafs driver in Mate 9 Versions earlier than MHA-AL00BC00B173 has buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has the system privilege of the Android system and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing a system crash or privilege escalation.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.