CVE Catalog

CVE-2014-9891

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices, certain buffer addresses are not validated, allowing attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an ioctl call.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to the system, potentially leading to serious 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 devices.

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Original NVD description (English source)

drivers/misc/qseecom.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not validate certain buffer addresses, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 28749283 and Qualcomm internal bug CR550061.

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