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Security Advisory - Arbitrary Memory Free Vulnerability in GPU Driver of Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180613-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date:2018-06-13
- Last Release Date:2018-06-13
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-17173.
Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180613-02-smartphone-en
Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
Mate 9 Pro |
The versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00) |
LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00) |
Successful exploit may result in phone crash or arbitrary code execution.
Base Score: 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 7.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker successfully tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
There is an arbitrary memory free vulnerability in GPU driver of some Huawei smart phones due to insufficient parameters verification. 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.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
2018-06-13 V1.0 INITIAL
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