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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jun 14, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-17173

CVE-2017-17173

Description

Due to insufficient parameters verification GPU driver of Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with the versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00) has an arbitrary memory free vulnerability. An attacker can tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to driver to release special kernel memory resource. Successful exploit may result in phone crash or arbitrary code execution.

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Affected products

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  • Huawei/Mate 9 Pro GPU driverllm-create
    Range: < LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00)
  • Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd./Mate 9 Prov5
    Range: The versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00)

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