CVE-2015-7740 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published 13 Apr 2017 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Local attackers can crash the operating system by passing crafted input to the GPU driver on affected Huawei devices.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2015-7740?

CVE-2015-7740 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 13 Apr 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Huawei P7 before P7-L00C17B851, P7-L05C00B851, and P7-L09C92B851 and P8 ALE-UL00 before ALE-UL00B211 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OS crash) via vectors involving an application that passes crafted input to the GPU driver.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7740?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Huawei P7 Firmware, Huawei P8 Ale-Ul00 Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7740?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-7740 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-7740 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7740 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-x3qp-qwx3-f6qc.