CVE-2017-17172

Summary

CVECVE-2017-17172
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-14 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionHuawei smart phones LYO-L21 with software LYO-L21C479B107, LYO-L21C479B107 have a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, local attacker can crafts malformed packets after tricking a user to install a malicious application and exploit this vulnerability when in the exception handling process. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege of the smart phones.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-755

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Huawei Lyo-l21 All All All All
Hardware Huawei Lyo-l21 All All All All
Operating System Huawei Lyo-l21 Firmware lyo-l21c479b107 All All All
Operating System Huawei Lyo-l21 Firmware lyo-l21c577b126 All All All
Operating System Huawei Lyo-l21 Firmware lyo-l21c479b107 All All All
Operating System Huawei Lyo-l21 Firmware lyo-l21c577b126 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones CONFIRM www.huawei.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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