CVE-2017-2734 Denial of service in P9 Plus
A malicious application can cause a Huawei P9 Plus smartphone to crash via memory exhaustion by sending specific parameters to an interface.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-2734?
CVE-2017-2734 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. P9 Plus, published on 22 Nov 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
P9 Plus smartphones with software versions earlier before VIE-AL10BC00B386 have a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the application can send given parameter to specific interface, which make a large number of memory allocation and the smart phone will be crash for memory exhaustion.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-2734?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Huawei P9 Plus Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2017-2734?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-2734 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-2017-2734 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-2734 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. P9 Plus
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vcxx-jfx3-h7xh.