CVE-2017-8179 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170919-01-mtk-en http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101956

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8