CVE-2017-8148

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% 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-362

Description

Audio driver in P9 smartphones with software The versions before EVA-AL10C00B389 has a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the race condition cause null pointer accessing during the application access shared resource, which make the system reboot.

Affected products

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei P9: before eva-al10c00b389 — fixed in eva-al10c00b389

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei P9 eva-al10c00b389. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170802-01-smartphone-en
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170802-01-smartphone-en

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