CVE-2017-8179 (GCVE-0-2017-8179)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-22 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 03:28
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • buffer overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Nice-AL00 Affected: Versions earlier than Nice-AL00C00B155
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Date Public
2017-11-15 00:00
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