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CVE-2017-8143

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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-20

Description

Wi-Fi driver of Honor 5C and P9 Lite Huawei smart phones with software versions earlier than NEM-L21C432B351 and versions earlier than VNS-L21C10B381 has a DoS vulnerability. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and the application can access invalid address of driver to crash the system.

Affected products

• Huawei Honor 5C Firmware: before nem-l21c432b351 — fixed in nem-l21c432b351
• Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HUAWEI P9 Lite: before vns-l21c10b381 — fixed in vns-l21c10b381

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Honor 5C Firmware nem-l21c432b351; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HUAWEI P9 Lite vns-l21c10b381. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170623-01-smartphone-en
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99256
• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170623-01-smartphone-en
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99256

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