CVE-2017-17173: Huawei Mate 9 Pro Fimware

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Huawei Mate 9 Pro Fimware: before lon-al00b_8.0.0.356\(c00\) (fixed in lon-al00b_8.0.0.356\(c00\))

Published 2018-06-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.