CVE Catalog

CVE-2014-9786

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A heap-based buffer overflow in camera drivers in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to privilege escalation, posing a serious threat to user data security and system integrity.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Android to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor applications installed on devices.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Heap-based buffer overflow in drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/sensor/actuator/msm_actuator.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28557260 and Qualcomm internal bug CR545979.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS