CVE-2017-2716

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-11-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The camerafs driver in Mate 9 Versions earlier than MHA-AL00BC00B173 has buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has the system privilege of the Android system and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing a system crash or privilege escalation.

Affected products

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 9: before mha-al00bc00b173 — fixed in mha-al00bc00b173

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 9 mha-al00bc00b173. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170426-02-smartphone-en
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170426-02-smartphone-en

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