CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-8164 — Huawei Eva-Al10 Firmware security vulnerability
Some Huawei smart phones with software EVA-L09C34B142; EVA-L09C40B196; EVA-L09C432B210; EVA-L09C440B138; EVA-L09C464B150; EVA-L09C530B127; EVA-L09C55B190; EVA-L09C576B150; EVA-L09C635B221; EVA-L09C636B193; EVA-L09C675B130; EVA-L09C688B143; EVA-L09C703B160; EVA-L09C706B145; EVA-L09GBRC555B171; EVA-L09IRLC368B160; EVA-L19C10B190; EVA-L19C185B220; EVA-L19C20B160; EVA-L19C432B210; EVA-L19C636B190; EVA-L29C20B160; EVA-L29C636B191; EVA-TL00C01B198; VIE-L09C02B131; VIE-L09C109B181; VIE-L09C113B170; VIE-L09C150B170; VIE-L09C25B120; VIE-L09C40B181; VIE-L09C432B181; VIE-L09C55B170; VIE-L09C605B131; VIE-L09ITAC555B130; VIE-L29C10B170; VIE-L29C185B181; VIE-L29C605B131; VIE-L29C636B202 have a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation can cause camera application unusable.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 4.3 (2.0)
- Published
- 2018-03-05
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
- huawei / eva-al10_firmware / eva-al10c00b198
- huawei / eva-cl00_firmware / eva-cl00c92b198
- huawei / eva-dl00_firmware / eva-dl00c17b198
- huawei / eva-l09_firmware / eva-l09c02b143
- huawei / eva-l09_firmware / eva-l09c09b150
- huawei / eva-l09_firmware / eva-l09c22b140
Matched remediation archetype
Resource exhaustion and denial of service
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Check exposure
- Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
- Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
- Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.
Remediate safely
- Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
- Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
- Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.
Authoritative sources
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