Security Advisory

CVE-2017-8179

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-11-22 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-17 03:28:31
Assigner huawei
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.