CVE-2017-8179: huawei technologies co., ltd. nice-al00

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-8179 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in huawei technologies co., ltd. nice-al00. EPSS estimates a 0.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 22-11-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 17-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The camera driver of MTK platform in Huawei smart phones with software of versions earlier than Nice-AL00C00B155 has a buffer overflow vulnerability.Due to the insufficient input verification, an attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has special privilege and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing 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.