Memory corruption in Huawei Mate 10 - CVE-2017-17227

 

Memory corruption in Huawei Mate 10 - CVE-2017-17227

Published: February 9, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10443
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-17227
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Huawei
Affected software:
Huawei Mate 10

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an out-of-bounds memory access flaw. A local attacker can persuade a victim to install a malicious application and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-17227

Update to versions ALP-L09 8.0.0.120(C212), ALP-L09 8.0.0.127(C900), ALP-L09 8.0.0.128(402/C02/C109/C346/C432/C652).

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