CVE-2017-8179

2017-11-1500:00:00

huawei

www.cve.org

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

32.6%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Nice-AL00",
    "vendor": "Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Versions earlier than Nice-AL00C00B155"
      }
    ]
  }
]