CVE-2017-17227

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: 2018-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

GPU driver in Huawei Mate 10 smart phones with the versions before ALP-L09 8.0.0.120(C212); The versions before ALP-L09 8.0.0.127(C900); The versions before ALP-L09 8.0.0.128(402/C02/C109/C346/C432/C652) has a out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability due to the input parameters validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the application can call the driver with special parameter and cause accessing out-of-bounds memory. Successful exploit may result in phone crash or arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 10: before alp-l09_8.0.0.120\(c212\); before alp-l09_8.0.0.127\(c900\); before alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(402\); before alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c02\); before alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c109\); before alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c346\) — fixed in alp-l09_8.0.0.120\(c212\), alp-l09_8.0.0.127\(c900\), alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(402\), alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c02\), alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c109\), alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c346\)

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 10 alp-l09_8.0.0.120\(c212\), alp-l09_8.0.0.127\(c900\), alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(402\), alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c02\). Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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