CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-8159

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-11-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-704

Description

Some Huawei smartphones with software AGS-L09C233B019,AGS-W09C233B019,KOB-L09C233B017,KOB-W09C233B012 have a type confusion vulnerability. The program initializes a variable using one type, but it later accesses that variable using a type that is different with the original type when do certain register operation. Successful exploit could result in buffer overflow then may cause malicious code execution.

Affected configurations

• huawei agassi-l09hn firmware ags-l09c233b019 • huawei agassi-w09hn firmware ags-w09c233b019 • huawei kobe-l09ahn firmware kob-l09c233b017 • huawei kobe-w09chn firmware kob-w09c233b012

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast weakness

References