CVE Catalog

CVE-2014-9869

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, certain index values are not validated, allowing attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application.

Risk Assessment

Attackers could exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to the system, potentially leading to serious data security breaches.

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/isp/msm_isp_stats_util.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate certain index values, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749728 and Qualcomm internal bug CR514711.

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