Huawei Smart Phones Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability: Malicious APK Installation and System Restart Exploit

CVE-2017-17171 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Some Huawei smart phones have the denial of service (DoS) vulnerability due to the improper processing of malicious parameters. An attacker may trick a target user into installing a malicious APK and launch attacks using a pre-installed app with specific permissions. Successful exploit could allow the app to send specific parameters to the smart phone driver, which will result in system restart.

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