Vulnerability CVE-2017-17159


Published: 2018-02-15

Description:
Some Huawei smart phones with software of NXT-AL10C00B386, NXT-CL00C92B386, NXT-DL00C17B386, NXT-TL00C01B386SP01, NTS-AL00C00B535 have a DoS vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An unauthenticated attacker could send malformed System Information(SI) messages to the smart phone within radio range by special wireless device. Successful exploit could make the smart phone restart.

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.1/10
6.9/10
6.5/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Adjacent network
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Huawei -> Mt8-emui4.1 firmware 
Huawei -> Nts-al00 firmware 

 References:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171220-02-smartphone-en

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