First published: Thu Feb 15 2018(Updated: )
Huawei Mate 9 Pro mobile phones with software of versions earlier than LON-AL00BC00B235 have a use after free (UAF) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can riggers access memory after free it. A local attacker may exploit this vulnerability to cause the mobile phone to crash.
Credit: psirt@huawei.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Huawei Mate 9 Pro Firmware | =lon-al00bc00b235 | |
Huawei Mate 9 Pro |
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The vulnerability ID for this Huawei Mate 9 Pro vulnerability is CVE-2017-15347.
The severity of CVE-2017-15347 is high with a weight of 5.5.
This vulnerability affects Huawei Mate 9 Pro mobile phones with software versions earlier than LON-AL00BC00B235.
The impact of CVE-2017-15347 is a use after free (UAF) vulnerability where an attacker can trigger access memory after freeing it.
A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into installing a malicious application.