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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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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: huawei

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-8179

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Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-8179

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