Security Advisory - Out-of-Bounds Memory Access Vulnerability in the GPU Driver of Huawei Mobile Phones

There is a out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in the GPU driver of some Huawei smart phones due to the input parameters validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the application can call the driver with special parameter and cause accessing out-of-bounds memory. Successful exploit may result in phone crash or arbitrary code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-12021)
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-17227.
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-20180207-01-smartphone-en