How severe is CVE-2017-15311?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 8.8 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2017-15311?

This is classified as CWE-119, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2017-15311 - HIGH Severity | CVSS 8.8

Vulnerability Description

The baseband modules of Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with software before ALP-AL00 8.0.0.120(SP2C00), before BLA-AL00 8.0.0.120(SP2C00), before MHA-AL00B 8.0.0.334(C00), and before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.334(C00) have a stack overflow vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker could send malicious packets to the smart phones within radio range by special wireless device, which leads stack overflow when the baseband module handles these packets. The attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform a denial of service attack or remote code execution in baseband module.

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