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CVE-2017-8149

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% 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 boot loaders of P10 and P10 Plus Huawei mobile phones with software the versions before Victoria-L09AC605B162, the versions before Victoria-L29AC605B162, the versions before Vicky-L29AC605B162 have an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker with the root privilege of an Android system may trick a user into installing a malicious APP. the APP can modify specific data to cause buffer overflow in the next system reboot, causing out-of-bounds memory read which can continuous system reboot.

Affected products

• Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. P10: before victoria-l09ac605b162; before victoria-l29ac605b162 — fixed in victoria-l09ac605b162, victoria-l29ac605b162
• Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. P10 Plus: before vicky-l29ac605b162 — fixed in vicky-l29ac605b162

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. P10 victoria-l09ac605b162, victoria-l29ac605b162; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. P10 Plus vicky-l29ac605b162. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170816-01-smartphone-en
• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170816-01-smartphone-en

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