CVE-2017-17159 Denial of service in MT8-EMUI4.1,NTS-AL00
An unauthenticated attacker can cause Huawei smartphones to restart by sending malformed System Information messages via radio range.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-17159?
CVE-2017-17159 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. MT8-EMUI4.1,NTS-AL00, published on 15 Feb 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17159?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Huawei Mt8-Emui4.1 Firmware, Huawei Nts-Al00 Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2017-17159?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-17159 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-2017-17159 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17159 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2r3x-2vg2-wg8v.