CVE Catalog

CVE-2014-9866

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, a vulnerability exists that does not validate a certain parameter. This allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to unauthorized access to the system, posing a serious threat to user data security.

Recommendation

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

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/sensor/csid/msm_csid.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate a certain parameter, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28747684 and Qualcomm internal bug CR511358.

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