CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2017-8179
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.81%
Original NVD Description
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.
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