Out-of-Bounds Memory Access Vulnerability in Huawei P10 and P10 Plus Boot Loaders

CVE-2017-8149 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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