CVE-2021-36999 (GCVE-0-2021-36999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-28 12:27 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:09
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Summary
There is a Buffer overflow vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability by sending malicious images and inducing users to open the images may cause remote code execution.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Improper聽Restriction聽of聽Operations聽within聽the聽Bounds聽of聽a聽Memory聽Buffer
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Huawei EMUI Affected: 11.0.0
Affected: 10.1.1
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Huawei Magic UI Affected: 4.0.0
Affected: 3.1.1
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