Arbitrary Memory Free Vulnerability in Mate 9 Pro Huawei Smart Phones

CVE-2017-17173 · HIGH Severity

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

Due to insufficient parameters verification GPU driver of Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with the versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00) has an arbitrary memory free vulnerability. An attacker can tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to driver to release special kernel memory resource. Successful exploit may result in phone crash or arbitrary code execution.

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