# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Feb 2018
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2r3x-2vg2-wg8v

## 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 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17159?

It affects 2 products.


Products: 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.

## Is CVE-2017-17159 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17159 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

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Check this codebase for CVE-2017-17159 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17159 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. MT8-EMUI4.1,NTS-AL00. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-17159/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-17159/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17159
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17159
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17159

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