Huawei Nice-AL00 Camera Driver Application memory corruption

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Huawei Nice-AL00. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Camera Driver. Such manipulation as part of Application leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2017-8180. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Huawei Nice-AL00 (affected version not known). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Camera Driver. The manipulation as part of a Application leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The camera driver of MTK platform in Huawei smart phones with software of versions earlier than Nice-AL00C00B155 has a buffer overflow vulnerability.Due to the insufficient input verification, an attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has special privilege and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing privilege escalation.

The bug was discovered 09/19/2017. The weakness was released 11/22/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-8180 since 04/25/2017. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 64 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-109915 and VDB-109917. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Huawei

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• Nice-AL00

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/

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