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CVE-2017-17173

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-06-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Due to insufficient parameters verification GPU driver of Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with the versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00) has an arbitrary memory free vulnerability. An attacker can tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to driver to release special kernel memory resource. Successful exploit may result in phone crash or arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Huawei Mate 9 Pro Fimware: before lon-al00b_8.0.0.356\(c00\) — fixed in lon-al00b_8.0.0.356\(c00\)

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Mate 9 Pro Fimware lon-al00b_8.0.0.356\(c00\). Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180613-02-smartphone-en
• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180613-02-smartphone-en

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