CVE-2017-8148: huawei technologies co., ltd. p9 Race Condition

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-8148 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) Race Condition vulnerability in huawei technologies co., ltd. p9. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

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

Description

Audio driver in P9 smartphones with software The versions before EVA-AL10C00B389 has a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the race condition cause null pointer accessing during the application access shared resource, which make the system reboot.

• CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.