Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
CVE-2017-17172
Summary
Huawei smart phones LYO-L21 with software LYO-L21C479B107, LYO-L21C479B107 have a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, local attacker can crafts malformed packets after tricking a user to install a malicious application and exploit this vulnerability when in the exception handling process. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege of the smart phones.
- LOW
- LOCAL
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- LOW
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-755 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
The software does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published