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CVE-2017-8179
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-11-22T19:29:04.273 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:25:55.427

Summary

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.

Affected products

huawei — mtk_platform_smart_phone_firmware

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