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CVE-2017-17173

Due to insufficient parameters verification GPU driver of Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with the versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00)…

Description

Due to insufficient parameters verification GPU driver of Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with the versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00) has an arbitrary memory free vulnerability. An attacker can tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to driver to release special kernel memory resource. Successful exploit may result in phone crash or arbitrary code execution.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By huawei

  2. · 6 months later

    Published

  3. · 6 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2017-17173, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0High7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Affected products

References

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Sources

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