Description
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.
Published: 2017-11-22
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-17141 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.
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Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone Mtk Platform Smart Phone Firmware
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: huawei

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:28:31.256Z

Reserved: 2017-04-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-8179

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-11-22T19:29:04.273

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-8179

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