CVE-2017-8143 Denial of service in Honor 5C, P9 Lite
A malicious application can crash the system by accessing invalid memory addresses in the Wi-Fi driver of specific Huawei smartphones.
- 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-2017-8143?
CVE-2017-8143 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Honor 5C, P9 Lite, 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
Wi-Fi driver of Honor 5C and P9 Lite Huawei smart phones with software versions earlier than NEM-L21C432B351 and versions earlier than VNS-L21C10B381 has a DoS vulnerability. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application and the application can access invalid address of driver to crash the system.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-8143?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Huawei Honor 5c Firmware, Huawei P9 Lite Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2017-8143?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-8143 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-2017-8143 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8143 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Honor 5C, P9 Lite
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p3jc-92j3-5rxq.