CVE-2017-8142

CWE-416 — Use After Free3 documents3 sources

Severity

7.8HIGH

EPSS

0.2%

top 57.78%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Huawei Mate 9 Firmware Huawei Mate 9 PRO Firmware

Timeline

PublishedNov 22

Latest updateMay 17

Description

The Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) module driver of Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro smart phones with software versions earlier than MHA-AL00BC00B221 and versions earlier than LON-AL00BC00B221 has a use after free (UAF) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can start multiple threads and try to create and free specific memory, which could triggers access memory after free it and causes a system crash or arbitrary code execution.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDhuawei/mate_9_firmware< mha-al00bc00b221

▶NVDhuawei/mate_9_pro_firmware< lon-al00bc00b221

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-8h88-hf49-3hhp: The Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) module driver of Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro smart phones with software versions earlier than MHA-AL00BC00B221 and v↗2022-05-17

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CVEList

CVE-2017-8142: The Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) module driver of Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro smart phones with software versions earlier than MHA-AL00BC00B221 and v↗2017-11-22

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