Detections
Analytics
CVE-2017-8179
high
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.
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101956
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170919-01-mtk-en